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@rabble said:

Could we have a post type which is an assertion? @dan hassan you assert that an account is deprecated. Then other people can see that and assert that it is or isn't deprecated. This could work with similar things like claiming to be a person on other accounts. I could assert that i'm @rabble on twitter, or that i'm also @rabble. Then people could do a message which agreed or disagreed with it. Clients could sum up the responses to the assertion and present to the user an estimation about how likely your social graph thinks the assertion is.

I think this parallels a lot of conversations over sameAs and such, and I'd personally love to do in-band assertions, specifically over whether an account can be expected to post future messages. Tying in another conversation, it seems that once an account is deemed "dead" that future [zombie] posts should be ignored. I'm not personally as interested in out-of-band verification of websites and Twitter profiles and such, but eventually a Keybase-like system could be super useful. I'd love to do some work in this space if we can nail down some specifics.

I support these ideas but don't have bandwidth to work on them in any capacity at the moment!

thanks @christianbundy!

This also ties into #eof / tombstones and definetly has to happen.

I wonder what @matt thinks about the layers feature of ssb-friends@3 in regards to sameAs?

If we add @dominics user invites and 2nd devices to this, I think we can start panting a more complete picture and than think about specific fractures that overlap in the right places?