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First, I'm not going to give any social media my ID.
If someone intends to expose your ID to hackers due to Twitter's poor security performance, this presents a perfect occasion for them.
I don't know why these social media companies are so fixated on asking for personal information. And I'm sure this is just the beginning of Elon's grand plan.
Perhaps it's time to abandon Twitter and move to other fediverse or decentralised platforms? I would love to see a mass migration.
mass migration. it would be cool.
First, I'm not going to give any social media my ID. If someone intends to expose your ID to hackers...
This doesn't have anything to do with hackers. I'm not going to give any social media my ID, period.
It's optional and only intended towards Premium users, but concerning nonetheless. This ID-gathering is probably not even regulated in a lot of countries - I haven't found any info on such regulation existing. And a migration is happening - but that part of the cake is distributed between platforms like Mastodon/*key, Threads, Bluesky and Tumblr.
But think about it though, it could be a way for X users that are prone to identity theft to be easily recognizable, like for instance if you're notable enough they could verify your ID and then give something to your profile so people know it's the real you! I'm thinking maybe a Blue X ?
You all can't see Musk's genius, that's all.
Surely it's for a mechanism to prevent hatespeech, right? Right?
Verify you have access to Photoshop and a color printer.
Basically the only reason to collect that level of ID if you’re not a bank is so you can fulfil anti-money laundering requirements necessary to allow trading of some commodity, or currency.
So what are people paying $8/mo for then? Just a stupid emoji next to their name? (yes lol)
The best time to leave Twitter was when Elon took over, the second best time is right now.
I think would be a step too far for most
