Identity is the only temporary ‘band aid’ they have for filtering bots.
Identity opens the door to offering micropayments. Incumbents will also use identity as the means to censor. They will make social media borderline unusable without it.
Nostr + Lightning zaps present a completely different ecosystem, without such walls & restrictions ⚡️ nostr:note1w24v5kr987804evn70a3aed44y5k83j72809a0w4w75rdhpq0aws6jqvzj
Hard to get rid of bot accounts without inserting post limits, KYC or payments though?
What other ways could it be done?
It’s an impossible game. Bots are here to stay and will probably outwit the barriers imposed.
Think we simply need to rely less on feeds and more on curated content, powered by trust graphs of people you’re following.
Pay to post also. There needs to be a cost of creating content and to be put infront of people’s eyeballs.
My point was that the moves X are making is not for protecting users from ‘fake news’. It’s about being able to have everyone use X as the value transfer mechanism. They want to be the biggest bank in the world. To be that they need your identity.
