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jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 5 days agoAnd centralization solves this how? The other social networks are giving more checkmarks to grifters and scammers than they are giving them to honest people because, spoiler alert, con artists are very good at both building a following and paying bribes.
hamsterkill@lemmy.sdf.org 5 days ago
I think their plan is for it to be like how website cert verification works. You have a set of trusted authorities that issue certs (or in this case verifications) and that can revoke them if needed.
t3rmit3@beehaw.org 2 days ago
Sounds like centralization to me. Who decides to vest authority in this group? Who selected the members of this group?
Unless there is some method for each host to nominate members and it changes dynamically based on total votes at any given time, you’ve just entrenched centralized authority in your ‘decentralized’ app.
hamsterkill@lemmy.sdf.org 2 days ago
I expect the trusted authorities would be selected by the server where the user account resides. I.e. if a server’s admin does not recognize a certain authority, it would not show their verifications to users logged in to their server.
It’s possible that it could extend to user selections of trusted verifiers as well, but I think implementing that level of granularity would be more of pain than it’s worth to Bluesky. Still, I could be surprised.
t3rmit3@beehaw.org 2 days ago
That’s not what the current PR lays out, and I’m not going to give them credit for future maybes. Right now they’re just X2.