@BluesDriveAmelia It comes across as very genuine though, and understandable. At the very least it seems to me too that people are worth not being entirely nihilist about.

@BluesDriveAmelia PGP uses keypairs. I could steal your public key and claim it's mine, but if someone encrypts something with it and sends it to me, I still can't read it without your secret key.I haven't researched how identity management sites like that work, but maybe they make you sign something (a URL?) with your secret key and validate that against the public key to prove that you're the owner of that identity.

@BluesDriveAmelia The bridge has been a tad congested today for me, 10 minutes behind or thereabouts. If it takes much longer than that to vanish, file a bug at https://github.com/snarfed/bridgy-fed/issues. I can't find it now but I vaguely remember a previous case where a deletion was not bridged because of some data formatting edge case and it led to a bugfix.