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>>pranav+(OP)
We've enjoyed a certain period (at least a couple of decades) of global, anonymous collaboration that seems to be ending. Trust in the individual is going to become more important in many areas of life, from open-source to journalism and job interviews.

>>oneeye+zU
Some projects, like Linux (the kernel) have always been developed that way. Linus has described the trust model in the kernel to be very much "web of trust". You don't just submit patches directly to Linus, you submit them to module maintainers who are trusted by subsystem maintainers and who are all ultimately, indirectly trusted by the branch maintainer (Linus).