Comment by ubermonkey
17 hours ago
"I think it's going to effectively kill public chat communities without either proof of identity or attestation through a web of trust."
Those sorts of places were always the only places with reliably good communities.
To the contrary, platforms like Facebook and X demonstrate that even personal verification won't save you from identity politics.
People will post appalling racism in newspapers under their own bylines and photos. Identity verification does not moderate.
I don't know what you mean by "identity politics."
No algorithmic platform can sustain or even encourage genuine human interaction, so FB isn't even on the table here.
What is identity politics, is that age verification?
Identity politics have nothing to do with your actual identification documents. Think: Black Americans being treated as a homogeneous voting bloc, or that all Hispanic voters would be pro-immigration, or "the Evangelical vote".