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Verification will very quickly become an issue on Fedi, I believe. (social.beaware.live)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

@[email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

@[email protected] 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.😬