• vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 day ago

    It’s new quantities, but an old mechanism, though. Humans were making up shit for all of history of talking.

    In olden days it was resolved by trust and closed communities (hence various mystery cults in Antiquity, or freemasons in relatively recent times, or academia when it was a bit more protected).

    Still doable and not a loss - after all, you are ultimately only talking to people anyway. One can build all the same systems on a F2F basis.