Mastodon allows you to verify an account by adding a link to your Mastodon profile on a website you control, which will make the website marked as verified in the profile. It’s only worth as much as the trustworthiness of the website itself though.
Eh. I use this for a videogame development community, and the sort of trolling we’ve had on Reddit would absolutely fit with someone trying to impersonate one of the developers to cause shit.
The way Reddit works is that you care about the content, not the people posting it.
That’s mostly true, but not entirely. The OP of a thread should be a distinguished role, since their updates have significance in things like AMAs. It would also be good to highlight situations where a different person has joined a reply chain - if you have been having a 1:1 back-and-forth, and you see a new reply in that context, it’s easy to assume it’s coming from the same - an assumption that might make you incorrectly reference prior claims in the conversation as if they were made by that person.
it already is though. you get stuff like “creator”, “mod”, or “admin” appended next to usernames, at least on the web ui (“creator” means op, idk why they worded it this way)
No. The way Reddit works is that you care about the content, not the people posting it.
Mastodon must have a bigger problem with that (impersonation), but I don’t know if/how they solved it
I agree. An AMA would be hilarious with several imposter accounts answering people’s questions.
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Holy shit! You just turned email addresses into lemmy posts/profiles!
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This isn’t reddit
Mastodon allows you to verify an account by adding a link to your Mastodon profile on a website you control, which will make the website marked as verified in the profile. It’s only worth as much as the trustworthiness of the website itself though.
Eh. I use this for a videogame development community, and the sort of trolling we’ve had on Reddit would absolutely fit with someone trying to impersonate one of the developers to cause shit.
In fact that actually happened once on one forum.
That’s mostly true, but not entirely. The OP of a thread should be a distinguished role, since their updates have significance in things like AMAs. It would also be good to highlight situations where a different person has joined a reply chain - if you have been having a 1:1 back-and-forth, and you see a new reply in that context, it’s easy to assume it’s coming from the same - an assumption that might make you incorrectly reference prior claims in the conversation as if they were made by that person.
RIF did the former, but not the latter (AFAIK).
it already is though. you get stuff like “creator”, “mod”, or “admin” appended next to usernames, at least on the web ui (“creator” means op, idk why they worded it this way)