The issue with digital identity is that people don’t have a single, unified identity.
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The issue with digital identity is that people don’t have a single, unified identity. Identity, like many things, is a social construct, not part of some natural order. As a dual national, I'm acutely aware that when and how I assert an identity credential, or characteristic, depends on context. Therefore, digital systems that help us assert these identities must be responsive to people’s contextual needs and under their control. Otherwise, we’re just building more surveillance tools.
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The issue with digital identity is that people don’t have a single, unified identity. Identity, like many things, is a social construct, not part of some natural order. As a dual national, I'm acutely aware that when and how I assert an identity credential, or characteristic, depends on context. Therefore, digital systems that help us assert these identities must be responsive to people’s contextual needs and under their control. Otherwise, we’re just building more surveillance tools.
@torgo a lot of confusion arises when there's no shared understanding of identity in a particular context, or even the context itself is unclear. We see this in #ActivityPub development, where a plethora of different mental models and perspectives are complicating severely the standardization process.
An example is this #SocialHub post and onwards pondering "What is Nomadic identity?" ..
Nomadic identity for the fediverse?
hey all, was wondering, is anyone still actively working on #nomadicidentity for the fediverse? My interest in nomadic identity is somewhat inspired by scuttlebutt: to allow for migrating an account between servers, wit…
SocialHub (socialhub.activitypub.rocks)
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@torgo a lot of confusion arises when there's no shared understanding of identity in a particular context, or even the context itself is unclear. We see this in #ActivityPub development, where a plethora of different mental models and perspectives are complicating severely the standardization process.
An example is this #SocialHub post and onwards pondering "What is Nomadic identity?" ..
Nomadic identity for the fediverse?
hey all, was wondering, is anyone still actively working on #nomadicidentity for the fediverse? My interest in nomadic identity is somewhat inspired by scuttlebutt: to allow for migrating an account between servers, wit…
SocialHub (socialhub.activitypub.rocks)
@smallcircles @torgo gotta say: I'm still not convinced nomadic identity is a good thing on a trust & safety basis. It feels like something that will almost certainly be used by abusers for harm. But I've also been staying away from discussion because I don't have the energy for it.
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@smallcircles @torgo gotta say: I'm still not convinced nomadic identity is a good thing on a trust & safety basis. It feels like something that will almost certainly be used by abusers for harm. But I've also been staying away from discussion because I don't have the energy for it.
@thisismissem @smallcircles @torgo not to turn this into a Discussion but how can nomadic identity lead to abuse? if anything, it can *reduce* abuse because if you inherently recognize that two identities are controlled by the same entity and blocking one can block all other linked identities. if you don't recognize it, then it's no different than having alts that share the same content. it's basically just database cloning with failover. of course spinning up a new identity is cheap either way.
