Comment by japanuspus
1 month ago
> Identity -- This is a difficult problem.
My hope is that in 5 years, I will not have anything in my feeds that have not been signed in a way that I can assign a trust level.
Here in the Nordics, we are already seeing messaging apps such as [hudd] that require government issued ID to sign in. I want this to spread to everything from podcasts and old-school journalism to the soccer-club newsletter, so that I can always connect a piece of information back to a responsible source.
[hudd]: (https://about.hudd.dk/))
So you're simply not interested in reading any random website by random people who don't see a benefit of establishing any form of trust, especially if should not be connected to their official government IDs?
Or to put it differently: Where should this come from, and which issuer would you trust? And why should anyone else agree with you that this is good?
Trust is subjective! Let's establish trust in each other rather than rely on one-size-fits-all solutions.
Personally, I trust my friends, family, and some public figures and institutions to varying degrees. I want to see social experiences that reflect that.
I trust person A, person A trusts B
When I browse to random site, I can see in my browser that A's first level contact trusts this site.
Now I can make a decision based on the amount of trust I have on A. Maybe after exploring the site I can mark specific pages or the whole domain as trusted, so people in my network can see the same.
On a larger level I might trust the Country of Finland, who will only mark their official sites as Trusted. This way I instantly know if I'm on an official site or something pretending to be one.
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