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by wink 152 days ago
So you're simply not interested in reading any random website by random people who don't see a benefit of establishing any form of trust, especially if should not be connected to their official government IDs?

Or to put it differently: Where should this come from, and which issuer would you trust? And why should anyone else agree with you that this is good?

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Trust is subjective! Let's establish trust in each other rather than rely on one-size-fits-all solutions.

Personally, I trust my friends, family, and some public figures and institutions to varying degrees. I want to see social experiences that reflect that.

I trust person A, person A trusts B

When I browse to random site, I can see in my browser that A's first level contact trusts this site.

Now I can make a decision based on the amount of trust I have on A. Maybe after exploring the site I can mark specific pages or the whole domain as trusted, so people in my network can see the same.

On a larger level I might trust the Country of Finland, who will only mark their official sites as Trusted. This way I instantly know if I'm on an official site or something pretending to be one.