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For malicious actors, life is getting easier. We may find social networks or online circles where being properly introduced becomes a thing again.
by quantified 4y ago
For malicious actors, life is getting easier. We may find social networks or online circles where being properly introduced becomes a thing again.
- etrautmann 4y agoIsn’t that already a thing? In my world all social networking is via group chats and texts threads.
- karmakaze 4y agoThat may be true on Facebook, but the same when reading Reddit, Twitter, Stackoverflow, etc. How would you tell how much to trust what you read?
- igorkraw 4y agoChecking sources, looking for tells, assuming the other person isn't your friend until some basic trust has been established? I've been online since I was 13 or so, I saw the tail end of Web1.0 and old school forums and back then the default was nobody knew who you were so the default assumption was that you were full of shit until proven otherwise - and that was before 4chan got big. Social Networks were never really social, now with the pressure of avoiding impostor bots, I think there might be niches for actual web of trust social networks again
- stjohnswarts 4y agoor to have meaningful conversation you'll have to register so identification and then be under scrutiny for trollish behavior, at least to minimize bad actors, you'll never get rid of all of them.
- karmakaze 4y agoOr web-of-trust as done in PGP to vouch for users you didn't directly know.
- yucky 4y agoWon't be long until the Government puts themselves in charge of this, making sure you only communicate with approved sources. For the children, of course. And terrorists, or something.