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What would it take to prove that a user on a particular Mastodon instance is the same as their Twitter or other identity?

📚 Reading Keybase's Proof Verification Language spec: keybase.io/docs/client/pvl_spe

@npd if the domain of the instance ends in rbs.io, it's probably me.

Nick Doty @npd

@ross sure, but I see the beauty of federation is that users can move -- maybe even move often -- to different servers, not that everyone has to maintain their own server.

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@npd well, true as far as that goes, but switching email addresses in 2017 is actually a PITA. Still your point stands and I was just talking about myself. ☺️