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@Onosocial has identity verification and believe me when I say it doesn't do anything to prevent abuse. Abusers find ways to step up their game.

That may work well for most North American/Western European users, but totally falls apart for other parts of the world. Fake IDs are too easy.

I won't even mention decentralization because we all know this blockchain isn't really decentralized.

The hope is that some SMTs will adopt (multiple) Oracles that know of account ownership, then 1-account-1-vote could be used to Trend articles, and not the potential reward.