I think the issue is there’s no reliable reputation system on the internet.

I remember when Facebook launched I thought it might serve as this (eg, “oh h2odragon has a year old account and seems not like a psycho, I’ll let them come to my art class”). But Facebook wasn’t interested and stopped providing apis and whatnot. I think it didn’t align with their business model as they kind of want scams as it drives lots of revenue (in that a significant portion of ads are misleading or scams that would be devastated if people could post reputation info like “this magic mouthguard doesn’t work and just a $10 drugstore version wrapped in $40 of social media ads”).

Does the reputation then get established using the blockchain? Is this the problem that Urbit solves? Interesting that the reliability of the blockchain doesn't have to be attached to currency. The blockchain can then actually make an actor legit? Some ideas, questions and confusions I guess.

It doesn’t need blockchain. I mean if Facebook had just provided ubiquitous apis that people could use, that would be fine and public enough.

The key is that there’s some public store of identities, and some level of social graph or complaints that lets you know if it’s a real person or not.

I think it’s better if it’s not blockchain and tied to some natural identity that people use- like Facebook- so there’s a virtuous incentive to keep it active. A blockchain wouldn’t really be self-sustaining as no one really uses identity as part of random stuff and it would need some way to pay for itself.

I'm learning more each day. Seems we all have to get together somehow and fix this situation we got.

Oh man that's the crap I hate. It's terrible we have these thoughts and even worse that there is actual actors doing this kinda bst. I am truly to the end of my core and up to my neck had it with this terrible 75% of the world being utter nonhuman. When will it stop?