W – The European social network for verified humans

I am just gonna leave it here.

Privacy Policy:

3.2. Identity verification through W Identity. To create a W Social account, you must first verify your identity through W Identity. W Identity operates an independent identity verification service that allows you to verify your identity once and then selectively share verified attributes with third-party applications under your control.

3.3. During the W Identity verification process, you will be asked to provide your phone number, email address, and date of birth, and to verify your identity using an official passport (via photo or NFC scan) and a selfie. This process is governed by W Identity’s own terms of service and privacy notice [...]

From the "W Identity" Play Store page:

Data that may be shared with other companies or organizations:

Personal info: Name, Email address, User IDs, and Other info

Photos and videos: Photos

Location: Approximate location

Messages: Other in-app messages

Device or other IDs

I appreciate the sentiment I guess, but you can't really verify the human-ness of a poster. At best you can validate that at some point(s) they completed a human-is-present check. Doesn't necessarily mean anything about a given post. Moltbook (wow that feels like forever ago) has the inverse problem: you can just larp as a kooky bot. At best maybe you can do something like limit the number of bots to the number of people who are willing to set aside their personal credentials, which is probably way more bots than you can stand.

There's a C-suite of five people and a board of advisors I couldn't be bothered to count before their public beta for an AtProto instance.

That just seems too heavy an operation for my taste. Seems prone to either infighting or raising too much early capital.

Boycott.

My social network is IRC, never needed to reveal my ID behind my nickname.

Signed up several accounts for the beta. Let's see how much of a photoshop they'll accept as verification.

please take this, as part tounge in cheek and legitimate comment

what, exactly, has "european" got to do with bieng a "verified human"

maybe I should ask a dog