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IMO, HN and Twitter are not comparable. You can't follow people. Whereas for example, if someone isn't a major figure or org, but is somewhere in-between, what
by hammyhavoc 4y ago
IMO, HN and Twitter are not comparable. You can't follow people.
Whereas for example, if someone isn't a major figure or org, but is somewhere in-between, what's to stop someone buying followers or rebranding an existing account and spouting nonsense? You might not value authenticity, but the average consumer placed a lot of importance in it.
Have people learned nothing with deepfakes? A picture isn't proof.
- prepend 4y agoThere’s due diligence to follow people and the blue check mark shouldn’t remove the need for knowing who is the person you follow or at least what you do with their info. I don’t think a blue check mark pre acquisition met this requirement just as it doesn’t now. Photos can be deepfaked, but there are ways to help against that. Like having the photo posted by a known person. I mean, users could deepfake the ids used for pre acquisition twitter, but I’ve never heard of anyone doing that. Just like I’ve never heard of anyone deepfaking their way past an AMA proof.