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So, I'm going to offer a dissenting opinion. Please hear me out before piling on.
The anonymous internet is going to kill the internet. Without verification and attachment back to a real human, eventually the internet will just be flooded with bots, misinformation, and unverifiable information. The dead internet theory.
So, yes, we all worry about "Chinese style social credit scores" or corporate ownership of ID or whatever other dystopian bullshit... But what if you just want to have a site where people can talk to one another and know that they're people that actually have to take responsibility for what they say.
Anyway, I suspect that this will start in isolation. Like when the internet was young and communities were forming with knots of small people... Forums with full verification requirements or similar. Then they will grow once their quality exceeds everything else.
Discuss!
That sounds like a good idea for a lemmy instance.
Would likely only work if federated only with other Lemmy instances with the same requirements, but yeah, I could imagine something like that evolving.
i mean, soon there will be instance private subs, so you can be federated but still have verified-only spaces.
bans would be quite effective, too