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Murtaza Hussain
@mazmhussain
In retrospect, the decision that did more to cripple Twitter as a reliable source of information was the elimination of the old verification system. While it was imperfect and implied a natural inegalitarianism it actually helped a lot to know who was really a government official or representative of an institution from whom accountability could be expected. It has since transformed into verification merely of who has paid $8 a month, as well as a marker of engagement-grifting for economic gain. It is hard to emphasize how damaging this is during a crisis where verifying accuracy of information is paramount. Most people, including myself, continue to use Twitter out of habit and because of sunk costs and network effects of over a decade of usage. But a new social media platform should consider some form of verification system that identifies institutional associations. That is how Twitter originally became the place where official communications happened. I doubt it'd become that again from scratch today.
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Uncle HODL
@unclehodl.eth
One of the beautiful things of this ecosystem is the public ledger. I certainly agree with your take, but we somewhat already have the verification you are looking for. For example, hodlceo.eth is me, and my brand/company is hodlhq.eth Both of these are connected to farcaster so you can expect anything casted out of those to be official. The fun part is being able to make subdomains, so I could also have the name ceo.hodlhq.eth as a way of validating my position at the company, or I could give you maz.hodlhq.eth as our news caster. I'm going to dm you a bit more in detail about this 🫡
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