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OnTheBlock and NextDoor join forces to finally finally finally make digital identities that don't suck #3

Open humbitious opened 5 years ago

humbitious commented 5 years ago

The Story

NextDoor has an interesting attribute...people in your neighborhood have to confirm that a new NextDoor signup is indeed living and known to people in their neighborhood. Sound like the most essential human attestation ever? Yup! But it needs a little Web3 love to fix some incentive and game problems and to turn it into the global identity powerhouse that it can be.

The Problem

How does it work?

Existing Work

Fit and Fitness

Assumptions

brian-lc commented 5 years ago

I agree that the NextDoor sign-up is pretty slick (in that they physically mail you a code at your address to validate your account). Where you live is a part of your identity but not all of it and not forever (or even a few years if you rent). I think this would be interesting if you somehow made it about local news and reporting. Like CIVL but for your neighborhood/town/county. Funding local news by locals for locals.