jessetayler

joined 11 months ago
[–] jessetayler@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Privacy / ease-of-use: https://mastodon.social/@the_angel is founder of eBig Design here in NYC and an artist group working on a Mastodon instance. People love the Mastodon way of verify, but would like to make it easier. They'd like the confidence of confirming Twitter+LinkedIn+Medium but without always having to display these accounts. My job here is to insert links that seem to be rendered from the header.jsx component — any help, advice or suggestions appreciated!

https://preview.redd.it/b09p4v7rl44c1.png?width=2374&format=png&auto=webp&s=c6d2b4820e71057065c828000b2f3f8b5aee7497

 

I'm new to Mastodon code and find it hard to understand exactly how some components are drawing and getting their data - If anyone could lend a hand or just answer a few questions, it would be amazing!

I'm also looking for admins who can install/test a branch or patch that extends the verify system in some nifty ways.

Please if you are familiar or just run your own instance, reach out because your help is greatly appreciated and could make the world a safer place.

[–] jessetayler@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

ok, please let me know if anyone can merge a branch or patch we are starting to try and see these features

https://preview.redd.it/dly95p40ue3c1.png?width=2466&format=png&auto=webp&s=a9b13024d50696f37d1d72643f98d56176ad468e

[–] jessetayler@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

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.
[–] jessetayler@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

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.

 

LinkedIn and other popular social sites are offering more options to verify that work for more people in more geographies.

To build trust the Mastodon way, is to avoid surrender of private documents and rely on digital counterparts instead. Mastodon profiles already showcase verified links with a green checkmark because people trust more when they are able to confirm and share more pieces of their identity.

Unfortunately, this task requires technical expertise and the process isn’t easily portable to other Mastodon Instances.

Are you part of a community or running and instance that would be interested in a test of anti-fake profile software?

Does anyone have any stories of fraud or bad actors abusing their community they are willing to share?