Also, a problem with a web of trust based on meeting someone IRL is that it reveals the social graph. Even if your legal name isn't attached to it, once your enemy (govt, corpo, etc) successfully deanonymizes a few people, that narrows down who everyone else could be.
I guess it'd at least be more censorship-resistant than a google- or govt-run verification method, but still far from ideal...
Wolf480pl
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2026-05-12 14:13:38 UTC
in reply to nevent1q…fr4h
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