It looks like in the future, we’re gonna verify our identities. Social media for the masses will be done with Identity verification. That’ll be the way to tell bots and people apart, stripping anonymity in the process.
Word that Mastodon is talking of age verification, we will definitely see instances adopt it. All is pointless if federating with an instance without age verification, and that makes me wonder if the Fediverse might split apart under that pressure.
It’s pure speculation, but we might see a verification tag, for those who did verify their identity, and those without are left without any tag, same as bot accounts. If the majority of people do eventually verify, that’ll cast doubt onto accounts who lack the tag. Instances could also go full whitelist mode, and all of those instances force you to verify to join. If that is to be the case, we either verify to talk to people, or we don’t and face the overwhelming bots.
But what do you think, how will the Fediverse navigate a dying internet?
To host an instance you basically have to dox yourself anyways. I had to put my information into my domain register because my shit could get nuked otherwise, they do redact that shit in who.is but still, either way you give your info to someone.
Yea, but for domain, you can pay and totally hide it as far as I know.
Yes you can, it varies from domain to even the domain registers. Ensure when registering you enable Whois privacy and leave your organization field blank or Whois sites will show your real contact info and address. I imagine someone powerful enough could get this still if they wanted to.
Yes, the domain name is an obvious point of failure when trying to maintain anonymity. It's not enough to get WHOIS protection if the company you register the domain name with knows your identity.
It looks like njal.la allows anonymous domain name registrations, but they seem expensive and I've read reviews saying njal.la will revoke access without clear violations of their policies.