• jasondj
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    1 year ago

    Ngl I would love to have at least one social media experience where everyone has to use their real, validated identity.

    Probably not financially viable, because ironically, privacy would be chiefly important. It’d have to be a paid service, not use ads or sell data at all, posts and profile visible to nobody by default, connections made by direct in-person/text/email invitation or by mutual introduction…very different from most modern social media. It’d also have to have pretty insane security, and mandatory MFA for every user at least on every session, if not on every page transaction.

    Could be technologically viable if we had digital government ID’s like drivers licenses printed on smartcards. But we can’t even get the states to agree on implementing common requirements for official state IDs.

    I’d really love to see how it’d play out, in the real world, if it could reach enough of a mass of users to be financially self-sustaining, and what the environment would be like at that point. For the sake of science.

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      1 year ago

      That’s what LinkedIn is lol they added verification to it recently

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        1 year ago

        I actually thought of that but no, not quite. I mean the point is everyone has to have a validated identity and post under their real name with their real, unedited, government ID-styled photo next to it.

        No validation, no ID…no account. No exceptions.