alt Hacker News> I think it's going to effectively kill public chat communities without either proof of identity or attestation through a web of trust.
I'm happy to verify my identity as an honest-to-god sack of meat if it's done in a privacy-protecting way.
That probably is where things are gonna go, in the long run. Too hard to stop bots otherwise.
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I guess it would have to be something like a service which confirms whether a person already has an account on the site but doesn’t have to track which particular account it is.
I’m not sure if that would work for account deletions though.
That is effectively impossible though. There's data centers of stripped down phones, so "it's actually a phone" doesn't do it.
What's stoping bots to verify identity? This will not work, especially with frequent data breaches.
In order to make this viable, wouldn't you have to verify identity repeatedly? What's to stop me from providing a valid identity and then handing my account over to an agent after I'm verified?