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1. scribe ✒️ (scribe@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Monday, 20-Feb-2023 06:24:21 EST scribe ✒️

   Paying a subscription to prove your identity online. The ultimate capitalist dream, or inevitable private digital infrastructure?

   1. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 20-Feb-2023 09:40:13 EST lnxw48a1

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      @scribe Definitely not inevitable; if national governments would do their jobs, it would not even be a very attractive offer.
      
      Once they realized that having most of one's contacts on $NETWORK makes that network much more attractive than competing networks, they should have required interoperability once any network reaches a certain size ... and therefore, if Facebook decided to change a subscription for verification, people could move to a competing network and still reach the same contacts.
      1. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 20-Feb-2023 10:20:12 EST lnxw48a1

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         ... charge a subscription ...