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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

Apparently Keybase is looking into adding Mastodon as a proof type, and in the meantime people are just pasting Keybase signed messages including their Keybase and Mastodon usernames into a long gibberish-looking message.
/cc @ross @HATF

Ross Schulman @ross

@HATF @npd the street finds its own uses for encoded gibberish.

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