_________ Fediverse platforms should use a real names policy.
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_________ Fediverse platforms should use a real names policy.
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G gustavinobevilacqua@mastodon.cisti.org shared this topic
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The Wikipedia article has links to specific examples of this kind of policy.
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@evan Real name policies are a good way to mitigate certain kinds of abuse but ultimately they tend to also get used for top-down abuse.
I've been penciling out some distributed reputation stuff that could solve this problem without becoming a privacy/surveillance thing. I plan to try implementing it sometime after I actually finally launch my app. FEP work to follow if I can suss that out.
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By “platform” do you mean the software that an instance runs or the instance itself?
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@evan how do you define "real". My name here has been my online moniker since at least 2003. I had another before this one (back in CompuServe days). Other than a specific instance where my legal name online is a matter of public record I have never used my legal name online for a variety of reasons. The most basic is that I grew up with an appreciation of privacy that that I believe in to this day. However I also consider my current moniker as "real" as my legal name.
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@lakelady I'd suggest looking over the linked Wikipedia page, which covers the issue of what "real names" have meant for different platforms at different times.
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squinky@teh.entar.net sign me up for something like this! A distributed reputation system sounds interesting to play around with.
cue cries about centralization... except they won't be if you can choose which reputation servers to subscribe to
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@julian I think I have some pretty great solutions to all of this! But I can't really document any of it until the other dev work on my app stabilizes a little bit.
It's great to hear there would be support for the idea, at least in principle. I'll probably ping you about it once I have something written out about it, if that sounds good.
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squinky@teh.entar.net of course, please keep me in the loop. It sounds like something that could be controversial but have interesting implications for Trust and Safety (cc thisismissem@hachyderm.io)
