How do we know that the people on reddit aren’t talking to bots? Now, or in the future? what about lemmy?
Even If I am on a human instance that checks every account on PII, what about those other instances? How do I know as a server admin that I can trust another instance?
I don’t talk about spam bots. Bots that resemble humans. Bots that use statistical information of real human beings on when and how often to post and comment (that is public knowledge on lemmy).
I have the idea that public libraries could host fediverse instance. Just register an account on their server, then go there physically and they will approve the account. You don’t need to show them your ID or even tell them your name. They just see that you’re a fleshy human. Now, other people who federate with this server can know that any account registered on it is at least associated to a human. That human can still use AI to post on that account, but at least there’s not millions of bot accounts in circulation.
This is such a good idea! I have been thinkning about something like this for a long time, like, town instances, city instances, etc.
I actually really like this idea.