Twitter has been quite fun lately, there seem to be 2 things they are mainly concerned with. The one you already know and the other is some Covid Amnesty bullshit.
Amnesty is boring, I remember in South Africa we had some form of amnesty and something else which I think is the opposite. Whichever I would recommend the best route is to cut the baby in half.
That is to say, I do not intend to do the effort and try on an empathy suit. I am perfectly happy wearing my duck suit and all your feels can roll right off my back into my ass crack.
Speaking of leaky arseholes, most people have been making a mess of my feed having an opinion over some verified badge. That is the other news I assume we all know.
Simply put it does not matter, and unless Twitter requires proof of residence or any online system, then "VERIFIED" means next to nothing.
On Hive I have a rep of 68 and there are many who are hitting well into the 70's. Given anyone hitting above 60 are most likely from before Hive, higher reps mean even less than a lower rep who has only been here since the creation of Hive.
Even so, your rep on Hive only equals time and attention and a whole lot of pity votes from higher reps.
Lower-rep people do not really increase your rep from what I recall so rep on Hive is almost solely just an indicator that you get attention from higher-rep accounts.
Verified on other sites work a bit differently, it is more an indicator of you having some following, stereotypically the age-old cult mentality which we tend to love rewarding.
With it now just being a purchasable product, verified on Twitter will be a lot closer to the meaning of the word. Verified will I assume given payment methods, simply be KYC.
Possibly Twitter will still then try to figure out a proper indicator of reputation across all metrics, and as simple as Hive's rep system is it is pretty much just a reflection of age old methods.
Hive itself and almost all of crypto merely mirror the current broken systems when it comes to governance, accountability, reputation etc.
Nothing new has been created to effectively judge a person's worth inside a system without allowing for too much power or silencing.
I guess a person could say it is really just the actions that ought to change, more micro systems within a bigger system. Smaller people who are only worth something when they are a group mostly do not get the chance to perform as the said group. It can definitely seem like the only options are power or silence.
Obviously just based on my convoluted ramble, it should be evident that none of the current day's status indicators is worth their salt.
There are too many variables and humans.
I will merely reiterate that having the verified badge be a product it is doing exactly what it is named. Verifying something. In this case, it could just be the fact that you are a person and have a bank card.
Which is perfect. Twitter already have vanity follower counts for the rest so there is no need for vanity checkmarks like on Youtube.
Anyhow when it comes to vanity, I am sure no one online needs to be given permission or have some seal of approval. People are vain naturally, if anything I won't mind just straight up having to pay just not to be doxxed to instead be a thing. Which I assume it is leading to.
If only for the giggles, you know, right before it gets scary.
