This is a discussion of account identity verification and is basically an endorsement of the ATmosphere Protocol (ie., Bluesky) to do this (I notice conversation at Cosocial.ca noodling around the same topic). Here's the stated objective: "A verification mark on this network must not encode, reference, or be conditional on a government-issued identifier, and no labeller, AppView, or app should publish a mark whose issuance required the user to present government ID to the operator of this network. The mark itself is the line: it answers 'who does this account belong to,' and that question must always be answerable without fees and without government ID." All very well, but I would answer back, "you mean, without government or corporate ID, right?" Because depending on a VC-backed platform for continuity of identity is as risky as depending on the apparatus of the state (these days, they sometimes blend into one). I personally think Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) are a perfectly good tool for this and have written some proof-of-concept code around them. And we don't need to depend on Bluesky's VC funders for continued benevolence.
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