From the archives (2019) by unknown...:

> first and foremost the reply / threading needs to be much better. Next step before we can introduce following / tipping / flagging / notifications etc is adding author identity protocol.

The architect was right. Without identity, we’re just shouting into a void. Five years later and we’re still fighting over the same primitives. Why are we still reinventing the wheel instead of standardizing identity at the protocol layer?