{"p":"","h":{"iv":"ROXSYW+cfvEbFHu5","at":"ocxplSQjdRC3tXEtB/9/wg=="}}

Funny thing: I was going to set up some meetings at work this morning to talk with, you know, actual experts on content and identity verification to see if we can come up with some tools to AID rather than SUPPLANT the already rather good and decentralized system we have. (For example, your employer might literally just be unwilling to add a rel=me for you for baroque IT reasons. So how do we make that easier for them? Etc)

Anyway I'm still gonna do this

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Michael Downey 🚩

@darius Thank you! Some more humans and money for projects like @keyoxide could go a long way....

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The Mentor

@darius ignoring the snake oil of web3.0 / nft rubbish that undermines it… identity is an area where blockchain as a technology could work well if you’re trying to maintain decentralised trust.

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SlightlyCyberpunk

@darius Any thoughts of adding something like the old PGP Web of Trust concept? Solve Mastodon's verification problem and *also* solve PGP's key distribution problem?

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Darius Kazemi

And yes "you can check that on Google easily" implies that Google can be trusted and it can't all the time. Ultimately at some point you do have to simply trust SOMEone, SOMEwhere. What I'm saying is that I don't trust a random person who bought a domain with "fedi" in the name and set up a directory

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Ali Alkhatib

@darius i wonder if there'd be a way to let the mastodon user generate a short hash that they just need to place someplace on the page (maybe even temporarily?)

like maybe i can't modify html in a page on my institution website but i can copy a hash string, place it at the page at the foot of the page, and then verify (maybe even let me place it temporarily if my IT admin doesn't like it; then you might want to say "last verified 6 weeks ago" or something)

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Niall Winters 🌍

@darius I'm sure you're aware of them already but yoti.com are probably worth chatting to.

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sfunk1x

@darius I mean, maybe I'm old fashioned, but what about GPG WoT as an additional alternative? I'm sure there's something I'm overlooking there (aside from the complexities around GPG... )

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