I’d like to know further the tools you are thinking of regarding resolving this issue. I think is bigger issue is disinformation and misinformation especially with the presidential election coming up and all of the Trump trial stuff.
this post was submitted on 17 Nov 2023
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indeed.
Is it possible on Mastodon to attest ownership of something like a github account without giving the github account name in the public profile?
That's a really good point - what we'd like is to be able to leverage the confidence of confirmed GitHub+LinkedIn+Medium blog without the need to always display them. This is one part of the existing confidence system that could be improved - privacy.
To sum up community sentiment
We are content with the "Mastodon way" of verification; however, we have thoughts:
- Beginner-Friendly: Verify is not "beginner-friendly," especially for services like blogs and social media.
- Privacy: We would like to see attested confidence via, say GitHub, LinkedIn, and Medium but without always having to publicly display the account on our profile.
- Masquerading: We want to prevent individuals from controlling vast numbers of fake profiles for political or non-legitimate purposes.
ok, please let me know if anyone can merge a branch or patch we are starting to try and see these features
