@hemmes @Gargron OK. But now you have to have instances that trust your instance(s) verification.

And, since the code is open, I (having mega$ ala Musk) can fire up an AWS cloud like "verified.social", charge $8/id, and send all other #Mastodon admins into a crisis worse than the current #BirdSite #RefugeCrisis.

If you want a #WebOfTrust, you do NOT want to rely on any specific verification authority. You want to rely on the entities you, as a person, actually trust.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_of_trust