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   BeAware :fediverse: (beaware@social.beaware.live)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Sep-2024 23:27:57 JST BeAware :fediverse:

   Verification will very quickly become an issue on Fedi, I believe.

   Even now, we have multiple "Linus Torvalds" accounts.

   Some have thousands of followers and a few posts, but do we know if any of them are actually him? Including the newest one on .social...?

   Obviously Linus should know how to paste a link into a website he owns for verification.

   However, if normal users can't do it, it's not good enough. What happens when/if celebrities start signing up? They're not gonna be linking to a website they own for verification.

   #Fedi #Fediverse #Mastodon

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     BeAware :fediverse: (beaware@social.beaware.live)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Sep-2024 00:12:18 JST BeAware :fediverse:

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     • BrikoX

     @BrikoX thats the wrong username you replied to.

     Nonetheless, I'm not entirely sure about an alternative because I don't know what's possible. I'm not a programmer.

     There might be a way to do it through other known profiles on other social media sites, but knowing those platforms, they'd block it.

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     BrikoX (brikox@freeradical.zone)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Sep-2024 00:12:19 JST BrikoX

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     @BeAware@beaware.live I agree that current verification is beyond most users, but I don't think it matters much for regular posters or lurkers.

     What is your proposed solution?

     Paid verification has issues both from money and personal information security management angle.
     The same is true for "celebrity" verification, as it require storing personal information.

     The easier way to verify identity is to cross-check if they link back to existing accounts.

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     BeAware :fediverse: (beaware@social.beaware.live)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Sep-2024 04:17:35 JST BeAware :fediverse:

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     • BrikoX

     @BrikoX the mention is a wrong username issue...it's social.beaware.live for the domain not just BeAware.live

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     BrikoX (brikox@freeradical.zone)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Sep-2024 04:17:36 JST BrikoX

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     @BeAware I have no idea why Elk refuses to mention you properly. Might be a bug.

     Relying on 3rd party platforms is far from ideal and like you mentioned unrealistic as it would require API access which would be easily blocked.

     Realistically, I can only think of one idiot-proof verification system. Credit card, but that opens up instances to storing payment and identitity data or outsourcing it to a 3rd party service. Anything else would be user based and require at least some input from them.

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     BeAware :fediverse: (beaware@social.beaware.live)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Sep-2024 15:01:14 JST BeAware :fediverse:

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     • Colin Cogle :verified:

     @colin I did see it. I followed another account on the kernal instance that I assumed was him but idk.🤷♂️

     I watch introductions pretty closely and that one caught my eye immediately.

     Hope nobody gets scammed.😬

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     Colin Cogle :verified: (colin@mastodon.colincogle.name)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Sep-2024 15:01:15 JST Colin Cogle :verified:

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     @BeAware You saw that account, too?

     In Linus’s case, he could put his Mastodon handle in the Linux kernel’s comments, or post it to the kernel mailing list. Of course, not everyone can do that.

     Some people doing Reddit AMA’s have taken a photo of themselves holding a piece of paper with today’s date and the subreddit name. Perhaps that can be a low-tech verification solution.

     Or, have someone post something on another social media site, “I’m on Mastodon at…” Again, not ideal, but doable.