cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/47443525
I wonder if the people at X ever read their own announcements.
Literally explaining how they sold out and enshittified the "blue checkmark".
This also seem like yet another step towards mandatory IDverification on social media! (only to protect them kids & democratize the platforms of course ๐)
we got to fight it nonetheless so it doesn't come to the entire internet including the Fediverse!
Mastodon said they don't have the tech to do it. Since it's a protocol, they can't do digital ID, nor can the rest of ActivityPub.