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I don't really get why provenance of social media posts is supposed to matter. It feels like a big effort to get people to want a checkmark rather than solving
by t-3 4y ago
I don't really get why provenance of social media posts is supposed to matter. It feels like a big effort to get people to want a checkmark rather than solving any real problem. There's no technical requirement for trust, no reasonable expectation of trust, no reciprocity of trust. The default sane stance towards the internet has always been to never trust anything you read, and that's a good thing.
- znmead 4y agoTrust matters more when money is involved, as is the case here. You are an internet power user, the masses are not. I agree with the "zero trust" model, but that is not how 99% of social platform users operate. There is reciprocity of trust in this case, that is the point. A system where community members vouch for each other is much more efficient than a centralized authority. People already want the checkmarks, this opens the possibilities for much more than that. For instance: I am a member of a 13-person club. We want to be able to display that on-chain. We issue badges to the members and it's done. Another case: A business or university wants to verify their members as legitimate persons associated with that entity. This allows for that.