icebreaker

Seems like having credentials on icebreaker (like verified Human and qDAU) would be useful as another form of reputational verification on Warpcast. Certainly stronger evidence than linking yet another social networking account. What do you think @j4ck.eth?

Early on, we thought account verifications were key to establishing trust / humanity

But we've concluded that by themselves, they don't matter much.

To the extent they become valuable, they become gamed.

This is true generally for all centrally issued verifications... from web3 protocols to LinkedIn to eyeballs, licenses and passports.

The only durable solution is personalized web of trust

Identity and math

Co-founder at @icebreaker

icbk.me/web3pm.fc

In farcaster’s defense, I don’t think the option to verify is intended as a requirement, just a means of letting new users bootstrap some modicum of trust in an otherwise bot-ridden environment

But agree with you on the problem with most web3 registries where they pose a fairly significant security and privacy trap (often unbeknownst to users) in exchange for questionable user benefit

This is why I am a little frustrated by the requirement to link your farcaster account to OTHER sites, like X, Discord and Github, to keep from being nerfed as a bot. Particularly since these verifications are immutable and shared publicly.