During the account verification process, users must take a picture of a valid identification card and a picture of themselves holding that ID card.
In order for this system to work, we must collect information on the identification card that can identify a specific person (such as their name, country, etc.). We also store the two pictures taken.
No personal data is ever shared or sold. The only purpose for collecting this information is to have a functioning verification system.
So let's say a user tries to verify their account with a government issued ID card and the next month they try to acquire a 2nd verified account but this time by using their driver's license.. They wont be able to acquire a 2nd verified account because our system will pick it up. (same name, same country, etc.)
Of course its possible to have two identical names living in the same state/country and this is why we also need to store the pictures to make sure that they're not the same person.
We also collect the device id and if a user tries to verify multiple accounts on the same device, our system will pick it up and we'll need to dig deeper to see if it's really the same person trying to acquire two accounts or not.
It goes much deeper than this but I hope this briefly explained the process.
Of course, there's never going to be a perfect verification system but at the very least what we're doing adds an extra layer to avoid voting manipulation on our platform.
Twitter for example.. they charge $8/month and all you have to provide is a phone number..
Launched in April 2023, Fairtalk is a completely new platform & I'd love to hear everyone's thoughts & opinions on it!
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On Fairtalk, the majority votes & decides:
• Which new features should be implemented or removed from our platform.
• Which messages or polls should be Archived & seen by everyone else.
• Which keywords or subjects should be trending.
Why do we need a platform like Fairtalk?
Unfortunately, we currently live in a time where we can't rely on our leaders or governments to resolve any major issues peacefully. They always play their little games of politics & care more about preserving their positions of power instead of doing what's best for the majority. There's currently more than 13,000 nuclear warheads stockpiled & ready to be launched at any moment. This issue likely won't be solved by starting a protest & releasing our anger on the properties of business owners who are simply trying to earn a living like the rest of us. The world desperately needs a platform where we can all collectively communicate with each other & show to our leaders/governments that we're tired of fighting their wars, we're tired of the political division, we're tired of corruption, we're tired of seeing prices increase faster than our salaries, we're tired of poor leadership, we're tired of being treated like we're mere chess pieces on a board.
Whether it's Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, Reddit or TikTok, all of these platforms use algorithms to suggest content for each individual user. This unfortunately divides everyone into their own little worlds and it simply becomes impossible to have any collective discussion. If we want a social media platform that impersonates a real life discussion where each person sits around a table and take turns exchanging thoughts & ideas, we can't have each user separated into their own worlds. Instead, we need to bring everyone together in the same room. Fairtalk does this by letting users collectively vote & decide which posts should be displayed to everyone else.
Argument against Fairtalk:
"Letting the majority vote & decide everything is nothing new. The concept of a democracy has been around ever since Ancient Greece. Looking at the current state of the world and knowing how chaotic it can become even under democracies, why would we ever want a social media platform that mimics such a system"?
Response to argument:
Fairtalk's voting system works nothing like a democracy. Our platform gives each user the option to either up-vote, down-vote or neutral-vote (see Fairtalk's voting system below). Modern democracies unfortunately only give participants the option to "up-vote" leaders. But by also giving an option to down-vote, we can start filtering out the leaders or messages that always seem to divide us. If 51% of participants want a certain leader to be elected but the other 49% do not, why would we still elect this leader knowing that the entire country will be split in half? Why not simply use a voting system that can help us find leaders that people disagree with the least instead of always finding leaders that anger the other half the most?
Fairtalk's voting system:
• Up-vote: Increment a message's score by +1.
• Down-vote: Decrement a message's score by -1.
• Neutral-vote: No changes to a message's score.
* The score determines which messages will be shown to everyone else.
Since voting plays a crucial role into our platform's functionalities, we had to build a unique account verification system that helps eliminate all forms of voting manipulation. Verifying your account is not mandatory and it's completely free.
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I'm currently searching for co-founders. If you believe you can bring value and/or help Fairtalk grow, feel free to reach out to me - email can be found on the website that I've linked - at the very bottom of the Data Privacy/Terms Of Use pages.
Additional info can be found on Fairtalk's website or app, cheers everyone!
That's just an example of what Fairtalk can eventually become and will either take decades or will simply never happen. Right now there's a growing frustration in the world because people feel like their voices are not being well represented or heard. This is why people go out to protest in the first place. Whenever someone protests, they'll be considered lucky to have their cardboard sign broadcasted on a popular television channel for only a few seconds. And how can you possibly convey your frustration and the message you want to share in only 3 to 5 words? It's simply impossible and there should be a better solution. We hope to make Fairtalk this new solution by giving everyone a fair chance to speak up instead of always having to release their anger on the streets.
By "majority", I mean the majority of all users within the app. For each message, there's a total of 3 voting options to choose from (+) (=) (-). Each user can only vote once for every post because we've built a verification system that only allows verified users to vote. Other platforms will charge a 7$/month fraudulent fee for your account to get verified, on Fairtalk it's completely free.
Voting (+) gives the message a score of +1
Voting (=) gives the message a score of +0
Voting (-) gives the message a score of -1
At the end of 7 days, the message that received the highest score gets saved and archived on our platform forever. So yes the message that gets archived everyday is always chosen by the majority of users on the platform.
When you open the app, there's a home screen where all messages can be filtered in different ways (highest score, most recently sent, National countries, voting cycles, etc.)
By default, messages are filtered by highest score so users know which messages are about to get archived and if they disagree with that message then they can always cast a (-) vote to decrement its score by -1 so that another message gets archived instead.
It's a very simple system that works very similar to a democracy but instead of voting for a politician to represent you, we're instead voting for the best ideas and messages that were shared on the platform.
There's not a single social platform out there that has the same voting system that we've built so it's a completely new experiment and we simply can't come to any final conclusions yet.
Also backend operations are not very costly (for the way it was developed)
Ive calculated everything and made sure that the revenue earned from ads will outpace the cost of server operations.