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One thing that would partially help would, at least, a global video search at peertube.com. With channel names you have a problem, as they would not be unique,

One thing that would partially help would, at least, a global video search at peertube.com. With channel names you have a problem, as they would not be unique, BUT at least, you could return all users in all instances, and hope people check the avatar. That would make the process more transparent to users, as they would go to peertube.com and see everyone they follow. BUT, there's a huge problem. When you have a big creator on the platform, like PewDiePie for example. Every instance would have someone creating a fake PewDiePie. So, either the original creator would go to another platform, or they would need to use bots to create they users on all possible instances. So... creator will not have any incentive on using Peertube, as there's no 100% way to know who's the original.

toomuchtodo 6y ago
Sounds like a keys.pub integration is necessary for cryptographic identity attestation and verification, since Keybase was acquired by Zoom. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22995792 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22995792
- FalconSensei 6y ago
  Unless all of this is completely transparent to the viewers and content creators, not gonna help. Remember when Mastodon started, the fake IDs were already a problem: https://mashable.com/2017/04/06/you-cant-delete-your-mastodon-account/#1L3vPzhHGSqm https://mashable.com/2017/04/06/you-cant-delete-your-mastodo...
  - toomuchtodo 6y ago
    Agree entirely. I would donate to Keys.pub and PeerTube to ratchet up the UX and make it transparent. You shouldn’t need Youtube, Twitter, or some other centralized provider to attest to your identity; you should be able to, with centralized providers only announcing or caching that attestation (just as keybase provided for with proofs). Maybe there’s an easy way to tie this together with FIDO, U2F, etc. I need to do more research. https://fidoalliance.org/how-fido-works/ https://fidoalliance.org/how-fido-works/

toomuchtodo 6y ago

Sounds like a keys.pub integration is necessary for cryptographic identity attestation and verification, since Keybase was acquired by Zoom. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22995792 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22995792

FalconSensei 6y ago
Unless all of this is completely transparent to the viewers and content creators, not gonna help. Remember when Mastodon started, the fake IDs were already a problem: https://mashable.com/2017/04/06/you-cant-delete-your-mastodon-account/#1L3vPzhHGSqm https://mashable.com/2017/04/06/you-cant-delete-your-mastodo...
- toomuchtodo 6y ago
  Agree entirely. I would donate to Keys.pub and PeerTube to ratchet up the UX and make it transparent. You shouldn’t need Youtube, Twitter, or some other centralized provider to attest to your identity; you should be able to, with centralized providers only announcing or caching that attestation (just as keybase provided for with proofs). Maybe there’s an easy way to tie this together with FIDO, U2F, etc. I need to do more research. https://fidoalliance.org/how-fido-works/ https://fidoalliance.org/how-fido-works/