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Unless you can reliably tie a user to their real-life identity, authentication isn't useful in this case. If a spambot tries to peer with my instance, it's not
by post-it 5y ago
Unless you can reliably tie a user to their real-life identity, authentication isn't useful in this case. If a spambot tries to peer with my instance, it's not super helpful to know that their accounts will always be the same spambot and not a different one.
- thomastjeffery 5y agoIdentities could be signed by a centralized authority, which would have the same desired effect as centralized hosting without the drawbacks.
- akimball 5y agoA person is not required. A reputation is required.
- deltree7 5y agoIn a digital world, with no financial penalties, it's easy to build reputation with 'spurious' transactions and exhaust that reputation for one "Large Evil Event" and rinse and repeat.