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K. Ryabitsev

"Verified on Mastodon" is meaningless if you don't 100% trust that instance's admins.
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@lightmoll Unfortunately, all of these discussions will inevitably go back to "self-sovereign identities are the only answer, but we can't possibly make them scale." :)
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@yuri Yes, but where does the info from the user profile come from? You still have to trust the original instance admins to not have tampered with it. I can make any user on my instance to show up as "verified torvalds on github".

I still consider this largely "validation theatre," unfortunately -- largely for the same reason "green title bar extended validation" certificates didn't stick around.
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@yuri Hmm.. no, never mind, I can't make anyone show up as verified Torvalds on github, because this requires a record on the github side of things.

Okay, I will give this some extra props. However, as instance admin I can still speak for anyone who is verified on my instance, so you're still never sure who is really speaking as "verified user."
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@lkundrak You make an excellent point! :)
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