There’s a lot of talk around identity online taking place at the moment: Xitter’s verified users, the US Congress debating deepfakes, Meta pushing for age restrictions on app stores. It’s all about authenticity.

Ever since the dawn of the open internet, and of the chat room about two minutes later, people have been able to experiment with what and how they present online. When so much communication takes place digitally, this has become part of developing a modern social identity.

As a new platform that gives its members the chance to construct their own identities, how can we ensure that our members - you - are authentic? Is that even our place to say? Age restrictions aside - as that’s too important! - is it better to have the freedom to anonymously self-express your identity, or is the safety and protection of verified members more important?

What do you think?

Note: this is simply a discussion, so we won’t be implementing biometric data gathering or anything!