Digital Identity

What are some irrefutable identity primitives that can be attributed to anyone to be used for proof of personhood? Other than a name.

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The mutual connections in a person's social network? Feels like we're at the cusp of this being machine readable with open protocols like Farcaster & EFP

At the risk of being labelled a contrarian here 😮 can I disagree again?

At the risk of being labelled a contrarian here 😮 can I disagree again?

https://philipsheldrake.com/2022/03/we-need-to-talk-about-the-social-graph/

"social graphs" is used in two ways. I always use it in just the one, i.e. sociometrically, a quantitative method for measuring social relationships.

In more casual parlance it's also used by people interested in the design of social networks as a synonym for what the person on the street would call 'who I know'.

Not at all. I appreciate contrarian opinions. 

I like a lot of stuff in this article btw. A lot of it resonates. 

But are you disagreeing that social graphs will play a big role in web3 identity or are you disagreeing with how they are being built now?