Before an instance does something malicious, how do you know it will be malicious?

Even if everyone there running it, & participating is pure of heart, how can you be assured that haXXors won’t simply break in to take advantage of that trust you’ve given them?

Banning bad instances is a reactive stance that only applies after damage has been done. Can you convince the corporate overlords to take that risk? And it only increases as the fediverse gets more popular, and more instances get trusted.

Yes and no.

Decentralized IDs exist, but will almost never be accepted by any large reputable institution.

Why trust every indie site to be 100% truthful, and definitely not full of malicious haXXors?

Paraphrasing a bit from the scientific source:

If the population of Canada used email signatures for a year, ~30 people in developing countries will suffer a premature death within the next 100 years.

That 100% should have been in the article in some clear form or another.

I’m not against the points of the article, I’m against it being so poorly written that AI slop is just as good.

Why not post that link instead of AI slop then?

This is AI slop.

The point is that you’d also like to have good things done to you.

It really depends on how much you have to do, to be considered as doing ‘good’. Do you consider returning a shopping trolley as a good act? It’s a simple, small act that you do have to go out of your way to accomplish, and it brings some utility to others, which you might unknowingly be a recipient of.

That’s not to say you’re expected to return every trolley in the carpark, or that all the evil corporations are actively trying to exploit this for free labour.

Society requires that people do good to exist, while continued Evils tend to slowly destroy their community.