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In-person verification with Guy Fawkes masks to preserve anonymity. Meet with a trusted mod/admin, show paper poster with handwritten username on it, mod reads and verify. You're confirmed human.
I know a lemmy.world mod that claims to live in my city, we can verify each other.
/okay just kidding, I'm too depressed and lazy to do this weird meetup thing.
Honestly, I think some sort of blind verification system is what the internet needs. Some kind of notary-like system where a verification happens locally with a person, and then no info on the person gets passed out except the verification to start an account.
maybe if there was somekind of trust based verification, kind of like how certifications work. You are issued a "certification" that you are decent enough and you can issue further ones and if you mess up too badly, yours might get revoked. It would probably be a terrible hassle though. Maybe it might work as supplementary verification system though.
Yeah. Kind of crazy I can lose access to a 20 year old acct and Google is just like 'meh can't verify you' and we all just think that makes sense. I should be able to somehow verify who I am and get reinstated.
I wonder... you know how webpages use widgets to try to see if you're human? Apparently they collect various data about how you interact with the webpage to figure out whether you're human. Perhaps they could use that data to make a fingerprint that can tell people apart. It maybe would be fairly inaccurate, but combining it with other information like IP address or location information could work together to make a better digital fingerprint.
That is a real thing, it's called tracking, it's NOT "fairly inaccurate", and we should all be fighting it. Highly advanced and multifaceted digital fingerprinting, including behavioural fingerprinting, is being used by corporations to spy on our internet activity.
See you November 5th?