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How can people prevent the Dead Internet Theory from becoming our reality? (lemmy.fmhy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by InternetPirate@lemmy.fmhy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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ELI5 Dead Internet Theory

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[–] Gsus4@lemmy.one 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yes, this is the solution. Each user needs to know a certain critical number of other users in person who they can trust (and trust that they won't lie about bots, like u/spez) in order for there to be a mesh of trust where you can verify if any user is human in a max of 6 hops.

tl;dr: if you have no real-life friends...it's all bots :P

[–] Tabb5@vlemmy.net 2 points 1 year ago

That sounds like the PGP Web of Trust, which has been in use for a long time and provides cryptographic signatures and encryption, particularly (but not only) for email.

[–] nickajeglin@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

BOT-Albert is my oldest friend.