@feditips erifying a user here is a multi-step process. It requires that the user reading content clicks into a users profile, seeing the rel-me link, following THAT, and deciding whether or not that site is adequate for proof-of-identity. It still requires a trust-chain that’s vulnerable to social-engineering and spoofing.

Nothing’s stopping a bad player from making an “Eli Lilly” spoof site that LOOKS pretty real, verifying themselves, and doing a lot of damage.