Gradual identity verification

To join DirectDemocracyS you must register by creating a personal profile (which is unique for each person), filling out the registration form only once in your life, which allows anonymity (just enter a username that cannot be linked to your real name and surname).

After having informed yourself as fully as possible, if you decide to join us, the steps to take are simple and fairly quick.

First you need to choose what type of user you want to have, based on your needs, your possibilities (such as time to dedicate to the system and financial availability), and above all the level of trust you have in DirectDemocracyS.

For the free membership, with no obligation to be present or to engage in any specific activities with us, you simply choose: a username that can be anonymous, meaning different from your real name and surname (which you must still declare in the registration form, but will remain invisible to humans and machines, like many other personal data, as you wish, thanks to very powerful and modern encryption); a secure password of at least 12 characters; and mandatory requirements: at least a personal email address (not a temporary one, as we will send you a link to automatically activate your profile) and a personal phone number (to which, after self-activating your email address, you will receive a text message with a unique code to verify the existence and ownership of your phone number). These are minimum requirements, which virtually everyone in the world already has, or can have; therefore, literally anyone can join us, without any invitation, at no cost, except for an internet connection (which virtually everyone has, or can have, at often negligible prices).

What are user types? They are traditional hierarchies based on meritocracy. User types are defined based on specific activities and behavior, which are evaluated based on points accumulated over time, both individually and within various groups. User types can also be chosen voluntarily; anyone can decide to remain a user forever, for example, as a free user, which has no cost, creates no obligation to continuously participate, and does not require voluntary activities, but rather mandatory ones within our system (to ensure our enormous system functions perfectly).

Time to dedicate to DirectDemocracyS.

Virtually everyone who joins us, with very few exceptions, engages in some activities with us. There are mandatory tasks for everyone upon first login, all of which are for the benefit of the system and each user. They include: setting up two-factor authentication (to prevent others from using your personal profile), deciding whether, with whom, when, and what personal data to share (so you have complete freedom in your personal data settings), and deciding how you want to receive our notifications, which contain all the updates about groups and activities taking place in our system (whether on your phone, via email, or, as we recommend, only with notifications on our platforms). A brief explanation of the last part above is in parentheses. If you belong to a large number of groups or are an integral part of a large number of activities, we recommend using only system notifications. This means that for the activities and groups you select (again, you have complete freedom in your choice and individual settings), you will only receive notifications when you access our platforms and websites. The reason: many of our groups and activities take place 24/7, often all over the world. Therefore, by setting up notifications via phone, you risk being informed, and therefore "disturbed," at practically any time. And if you're part of many groups and involved in numerous activities, you'd be constantly receiving notifications. The same goes for notifications to your email address, which would quickly fill up with our messages. You're completely free to choose what, how, and where you want to receive them, but follow our advice and you'll have fewer problems.

User types with mandatory presence and activities.

Free user types, and even some lower-tier ones, have no attendance requirement and are not required to perform any mandatory activities, but rather voluntarily with us (this isn't a paradox, and you'll understand why by reading the following section). Mandatory attendance and mandatory but voluntary activities are essential to the smooth functioning of our entire enormous system. In practice, all higher-level user types, and one (user registered before identity verification), must contribute small but crucial annual fees. These allow us, through self-financing, complete freedom, independence, neutrality, and total resilience. However, annual fees alone do not guarantee the enormous amount of hard, time-consuming, and complex work. Therefore, voluntarily for the good of the entire system, certain user types, with more important and more responsible roles within our hierarchies, must spend at least 20 minutes a day, including multiple logins per day, or alternatively at least 120 minutes a week, on one or more days, on one or more logins, performing necessary activities (determined by a group for the mechanism's activities). These few minutes a day, or two hours a week, are necessary activities, often not enjoyed by all users, but crucial to DirectDemocracyS, which will thus do excellent work, whether with a few people, many, or even the entire world population, who register in our system. Annual fees (also available for longer periods of up to four years, with a single initial fee based on income, helping those with less money), mandatory time to complete system tasks, even if we don't like them, make our system work perfectly, even with a large number of users. Please note: we don't send you out to break rocks or build pyramids, but often it's about helping other users integrate or perform essential tasks, online or even in person.

But if you don't trust us and our system initially, or forever, there is and will always be our free user type for everyone.

the free user type for anyone who doesn't trust us but still wants to be part of our family, allowing them access to the reserved areas of our free website. To join us, simply inform yourself, fill out a simple, quick, encrypted, and secure registration form with your real personal information (not visible to others by default), and remain completely anonymous. Again, use a fictitious username (or a nickname, according to our rules) and no one will ever know who you are. You'll also need to choose a secure password for our free website, one that's at least 12 characters long, according to detailed rules. You'll need a personal, non-temporary email address, protected by a secure password, from any email service provider. This cannot be a temporary email, because after completing and submitting the registration form, if you have filled it out correctly (and our system will notify you and point out any errors, which you can correct), you will also receive an auto-activation link via email (an email from us). You must click, or copy, paste, and visit this link to prove to us that you are the legitimate owner of the email address you provided on the registration form. You must also have a valid personal phone number, to which you will receive a unique code, which you must send to us via email to confirm that you have a valid phone number.

That's it, nothing less, nothing more, than any other website or social network. Obviously, there are free and lower-level user types (with higher levels of verification on our part), such as having to upload a copy of your ID or a selfie of your face with your ID clearly visible nearby.

Identity verification.

To be part of our truly and fully shared leadership, which is true grassroots direct democracy, and therefore to make decisions and vote legally, officially, recognized, and binding on our entire system, you must have a verified and guaranteed identity. This, in addition to the previous rules, requires you to make a video call to verify your identity with our identity verification team, through one of our trusted operators. We need to explain this to you. You can make the video call to verify your identity by logging in with your username to our website's identity verification area. You can then use the file you receive as verification to apply to become our official representatives, according to specific rules. If you wish to remain completely anonymous, you will need to schedule an identity verification video call, requesting a completely anonymous test user. During the video call, our operator will only verify that the personal information on your ID document matches the name of the test user. You will then receive an identification code, which you will use yourself, combining it with the identification code associated with your identity verification request (initial code). By sending both codes, which contain no personal information and are therefore completely anonymous, you will receive a third identification code , which will be a confirmation that you are a user with a verified and guaranteed identity, while remaining completely anonymous to humans and machines. It seems a bit complicated, but it's the only way to remain completely anonymous, securely, with your personal profile, yet have a verified and guaranteed identity, allowing you to vote and be an integral part of the shared leadership.

Verified identity and guaranteed anonymity

On DirectDemocracyS, you can prove you're a real, unique, and verified person, without anyone being able to connect your identity to your profile or activities. This is thanks to a system of separate codes that makes it impossible, even technically, to connect who you are to how you participate.

We've solved a seemingly impossible contradiction: guaranteeing security and total freedom at the same time, thanks to a system that completely separates identity verification from profile use.

It's like showing your ID to a bouncer to get into an exclusive club, who gives you a mask and an anonymous token. Once inside, no one knows who you are behind the mask, but the token assures everyone you've been authorized to enter.

👉 To understand how it works in detail, read here: https://www.directdemocracys.org/law/rules/justifications/justifications-of-the-system/trust-justifications/verified-identity-guaranteed-anonymity

After all these checks, you can request—and, if you meet all the requirements, obtain—free, quickly, and securely, the blue checkmark next to your username in our social area on our website. This will allow you to vote and make you a user with a verified and guaranteed identity, thus trustworthy for our entire system and for everyone involved. Some of our older articles included, and still do, the option to digitally sign with a recognized electronic signature, which in turn recognizes our digital signatures—a selfie with your face, with your ID nearby and clearly visible. Always ask whoever manages your digital signature, or your country, if they recognize our system's digital signatures and if they have mutual recognition and respect agreements with our system. We recognize only and exclusively all digital and electronic signatures that recognize ours!

Verification of personal identity.

All our official representatives, especially those at the local level (in our microgroups), are public figures and therefore identifiable (they must present their ID and our identification badge to anyone in person). After verifying their credentials and authorizations via our security group link, they can identify each official member, both online and in person, according to very detailed implementation rules, which have been published in our reserved areas and, in part, in our public areas. The only requirement for those wishing to be identified is to have paid the annual official member fee, or, based on specific authorizations, the annual registered user fee, with a verified and guaranteed identity. The official representative, after verifying on our platforms that the annual fee payment transaction code is valid and registered to the person whose identity is being verified, will proceed with the identification, create the identity verification .pdf file, and in a very short time, the verified user will be able to join us with an official invitation and subsequently request the blue check, according to the previous rules.

In-person identity verification is just as valid as video call verification.

You may have noticed that we verify identities gradually, based on the various user types, of which there are currently approximately 18, for all needs, and with all the potential gained gradually (to protect the entire system and everyone involved), on a meritocratic basis (accumulated points), on an individual and group basis, but which can increase, if necessary, or if we decide to have more.