We haven’t, really. Our “complete neutrality” is infested with troll farms, where people are employed to make hundreds of accounts to spread propaganda.
I’m thinking the answer is to implement a huge barrier for troll farms, but a small speed bump for real people.
It could be oauth with Steam or your cell provider, where you can make an account if you’ve spent over $250 with them. Actual credit history would work. You can combine these and allow any of them, which might let one person make 3-4 accounts, maybe, but that’s still limited enough to make things difficult for troll farms.
There is an issue where billionaires that want to influence us have absolutely absurd resources, and maybe paying $1000 per account isn’t enough of a barrier for them. But at least it gives us a chance for the bans to stick significantly more than they do now.
WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Who’s we? You think you get to decide? Unless the protocol is 100% open source, decentralised, user controlled by default, and resistant to censorship, the oligarchs and corporations will ALWAYS be able to seize control and use it against us.
If you genuinely think the solution is yet another billionaire controlled closed platform, a bunch of bootlicking gatekeepers to censor and moderate it, that can be sold, transferred, and monetised in any way, at any time… welp, the modern tech world must be an enigma to you.