Verifying personhood without requiring public legal identity

Dead Internet Theory: Communities can try to prove that an account represents one distinct human without forcing that person to publish a legal name, but every method trades off privacy, accessibility, trust, and resistance to duplicate identities.

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By Switchboard Tech Services · Originally published 2026-08-20

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