There was a time of BBS and text based systems where only genuine humans could participate, and a lusty lady on mIRC was at worst some dude pretending. Now I’m half a page into HN posts and realizing I have yet again been duped into losing some life to some jagoffs lying bot and work is just as bad.
The constant drip-drip of what’s-the-point makes the whole thing seem performative and hostile.
The internet was a utopia back when corporations weren’t even aware that they could register a domain name
Social media and consolidation of all traffic into a few platforms has led us to the dystopia of today.
This won't change anything. Likely will just open a market for trading verified accounts and spam will continue.
Accounts/identities that are known to have been shared could be flagged as stolen and now anyone who tries to use it gets burned.
Then the question is, what happens to the poor guy whose identity was stolen? As it is I already can't view half the sites on the internet due to endless captcha loops.
