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Re:We Are Trying Out PeerTube by toomuchtodo on Saturday May 09, 2020 @10:42AM (#23125084)
Sounds like a keys.pub integration is necessary for cryptographic identity attestation and verification, since Keybase was acquired by Zoom.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22995792

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Re:We Are Trying Out PeerTube by FalconSensei on Saturday May 09, 2020 @10:51AM (#23125130)
Unless all of this is completely transparent to the viewers and content creators, not gonna help.

Remember when Mastodon started, the fake IDs were already a problem: https://mashable.com/2017/04/06/you-cant-delete-your-mastodo...

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Re:We Are Trying Out PeerTube by toomuchtodo on Saturday May 09, 2020 @11:04AM (#23125239)
Agree entirely. I would donate to Keys.pub and PeerTube to ratchet up the UX and make it transparent.

You shouldn’t need Youtube, Twitter, or some other centralized provider to attest to your identity; you should be able to, with centralized providers only announcing or caching that attestation (just as keybase provided for with proofs). Maybe there’s an easy way to tie this together with FIDO, U2F, etc. I need to do more research.

https://fidoalliance.org/how-fido-works/

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