I’m thinking about how emails ended up becoming. Where our first email addresses were so wacky, and slowly we just wanted out real names.
I’m thinking about how emails ended up becoming. Where our first email addresses were so wacky, and slowly we just wanted out real names.
I think if we get to the point that we need professional accounts that will happen. Like, say the US Government finally gets fed up with Twitter and establishes a mastodon so that the Dept of the Interior can talk to the public again. Maybe some people will have official mastodon accounts on that server, and use their real names.
This is a really good point. Has there been any talk about how verification of users might work for when that does happen?
Mastodon has a system that verifies an account’s possession of another webpage. So that could help with company accounts.
I would imagine the instance is in charge of verification, and the instance itself will need to be verified.
With US government stuff, I wouldn’t trust anything not .gov but I’m not sure how others will handle it.