[post-it]

It's kinda exciting. The social media status quo has its upsides but a lot of downsides. I'm hopeful that the change will be good. We'll have to figure out a way to authenticate the people we're talking to, which will encourage tighter-knit communities.

[dataviz1000]

This will end with the only way to authenticate the people we're talking to is meeting them at the coffeeshop in the morning.

[Tepix]

Did you forget about Blade Runner?

[hackable_sand]

... Did you ...?

[post-it]

That might be okay. We'd lose a lot, obviously, but if you could 100% trust that the person you met at a coffee shop is real, and you could 99% trust that the person they met the day before is real, and you could 98% trust the person that person met is real, you've got three degrees of Kevin Bacon.

[abathur]

But can you trust that the things they say aren't just laundered AI blogspam?

[post-it]

Well I trust that the things my friends say aren't laundered AI blogspam. And if they trust the things their friends say, I can likely trust that too.

[arctic-true]

Until the humanoid robots gain the ability to process caffeine, then we’re all hosed.

[kawfey]

is anyone using keybase any more? i put it on my website and socials to do just that but it doesn’t seem to have stuck around.

[post-it]

It's not really the right kind of authentication. A bot can use keybase too.