Comment by Seattle3503
Comment by Seattle3503 4 hours ago
A lot of tech folks hate government ID schemes, but I think MDL with some sort of pairwise pseudonyms could help with spam and verification.
It would let you identify users uniquely, but without revealing too much sensitive information. It would let you verify things like "This user has a Michigan driver's license, and they have an ID 1234, which is unique to my system and not linkable to any other place they use that ID."
If you ban that user, they wouldn't be able to use that ID again with you.
The alternative is that we continue to let unelected private operators like Cloudflare "solve" this problem.
Telegram added a feature where if someone cold dms you, it shows their phone number country and account age. When I see a 2 month old account with a Nigeria phone number I know it's a bot and I can ignore it.