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hmm, night bicycle ride musings.
How would you deal with proving online identities (better). Stuff like keybase seems quite off since it's so centralized. With decentralized it might be hard to prove it's still you, even after having servers crash/accounts lock etc
(incoherent) ideas and boosts most welcome
@f0x federated keybase would be nice
@f0x i suppose one could put identities in their gpg key taht refer to non-email non-name identities, like accounts and whatnot
@f0x or i guess one could come up with a standard format like vcard or that microformat thing, but also sign it with your gpg key
@f0x we've got a lot of prior art in the original federated social platform, email. PGP has some legacy nightmares, but the underlying idea of a web of trust - a key or a cert coming with a verifiable signature of credibility from someone you already trust - it's pretty solid.
@falkreon how does it deal with you losing access to your computer/account? Just relying on your ability to keep (offline) backups?
@f0x yeah, you're always going to wind up with the problem of backing up keys, no matter what your approach is.
My nightmare scenario is banks realizing they have the infrastructure to do this without open-sourcing it, and then running a web of trusted banks from which all further trust would descend via some kind of subscription model
bonus points for stuff that doesn't involve blockchains :P