I am not really sure what people mean when they say "anonymous" anymore. This app requires a Facebook account. Facebook is a service that all but defines itself on identity verification.
Wait, WUT?
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#23I am not really sure what people mean when they say "anonymous" anymore. This app requires a Facebook account. Facebook is a service that all but defines itself on identity verification.
Anonymous to your friends, not anonymous to the service or law enforcement. There should be a word for this... maybe "pseudoanonymous"?
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#24What we need is a form of anonymous / pseudo-anonymous reputation brokerage. Tokens that identify not a person, but how trusted or how well liked that token has been used. You control your tokens, what networks, where they are used. An older token is worth more to you, and to others that see it. The values associated to a token varies depending on the tokens around it. Upvotes, downvotes, activities, flags from the v…
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#25I am not really sure what people mean when they say "anonymous" anymore. This app requires a Facebook account. Facebook is a service that all but defines itself on identity verification.
Anonymous to your friends, not anonymous to the service or law enforcement. There should be a word for this... maybe "pseudoanonymous"?
Re: Wait, WUT?
#26I am not really sure what people mean when they say "anonymous" anymore. This app requires a Facebook account. Facebook is a service that all but defines itself on identity verification.
Anonymous to your friends, not anonymous to the service or law enforcement. There should be a word for this... maybe "pseudoanonymous"?
Re: Wait, WUT?
#27It would be incredibly useful if there were a link to the App in question. WUT isn't very googleable, it wasn't entirely obvious from the article that it's an iPhone exclusive App, not a website or available on Android.
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#28It would be incredibly useful if there were a link to the App in question. WUT isn't very googleable, it wasn't entirely obvious from the article that it's an iPhone exclusive App, not a website or available on Android.
If you Google "wut app" it's the first hit.
It feels like we're on the verge of slowly evolving a new human-computer communication language. Definitely within the next 20 years it will happen. Not just a list of instructions or model descriptions like programming languages are, for example you can't translate an arbitrary Engish sentence into a programming language. No, I think this time we're watching a full language, in the linguistic sense, evolve in front of us.
Of course, search engines will also have to evolve beyond the "do-know-go" communication types that they're married to now, to get to the next stage.
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#30I am not really sure what people mean when they say "anonymous" anymore. This app requires a Facebook account. Facebook is a service that all but defines itself on identity verification.
Anonymous to your friends, not anonymous to the service or law enforcement. There should be a word for this... maybe "pseudoanonymous"?