• Gsus4@lemmy.one
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    1 year ago

    Yes, this is the solution. Each user needs to know a certain critical number of other users in person who they can trust (and trust that they won’t lie about bots, like u/spez) in order for there to be a mesh of trust where you can verify if any user is human in a max of 6 hops.

    tl;dr: if you have no real-life friends…it’s all bots :P

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      1 year ago

      That sounds like the PGP Web of Trust, which has been in use for a long time and provides cryptographic signatures and encryption, particularly (but not only) for email.