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At the moment the internet is flawed, do you think the fediverse is the solution?

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[โ€“] laxe@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It works be nice if there was a way to verify that a user is the same one across Lemmy instances.

That is one of the main function of public key cryptography

You can append your digital signature to your messages and it becomes possible to confirm the same person made all the messages