I've dived head first into Bluesky and AT Proto in the last 2 months. The platform is amazing and I was able to grow an app from 0 to 30k users in that time[1].

I have also been long pondering what puts me off social media and how I could fix it. Often times it is the ease by which anyone can create new anonymous accounts, those accounts can be used to easily brew up a Firestorm of Falsehood[2]. Identity is a strong part of this and domain name verification isn't enough to solve this.

One potentially radical idea I've had is to form a social network of verified humans. Where each human is only allowed a single account. This is possible, while remaining anonymous to other users. I think the only way in which this can be done is by relying on passport (and other government IDs) verification. I have actually built a prototype of this (still very much a WIP)[3]. Of course, the barrier to entry is tough, if anyone has thoughts/concerns and suggestions on how I can make this happen I'd love to hear them.

Edit: To those downvoting I'd love to hear why, please :)

1 - https://listifications.app

2 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firehose_of_falsehood

3 - https://onlyhumanhub.com

Isn't security the biggest concern that's basically impossible to properly address in the current DeFi framework?

You have a lot of money being governed by publicly available code with irreversible transactions. There have been a number of exploits in the past and there's no reason why they would stop. Why do people put their money in a system where everyone is a target and a bug can bring their entire balance to zero with no way to reverse it?