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@michaelmarek @staff @haubles No worries

@michaelmarek @staff @haubles (I can build that functionality there by allowing verified members to add verified members. I just don’t think that’s where it belongs. It would be far more useful if it was a feature of Mastodon itself and it could be used for other webs of trust also. Perhaps with attentions as to what the trust or verification relationship entail.)

@michaelmarek @staff @haubles We already have that: https://gaza-verified.org

This is to decentralise the verification.

Idea: Mastodon should allow adding rel=me links to Mastodon profiles to allow an account to verify other accounts.

(Or maybe a specific rel=trust?)

This can be used to create a web of trust.

e.g., For Gaza Verified, we have verified about ~250 accounts so far using video interviews. But that sort of verification doesn’t scale. And if we trust these accounts to be people from Gaza, we should trust them to verify people they know from Gaza. So Gaza Verified and the 200+ verified accounts become a trust root.

If they could then add rel=me links to their profiles to say “I verify this account is by a Palestinian from Gaza” (which is all we do), then we would start creating a decentralised web of trust.

Thoughts, @staff @haubles and #mastodon and #fediverse in general?

#webOfTrust #federated #decentralised #verification #GazaVerified

@df @aslakr Nice