Secure scuttlebutt (SSB) anyone? The core of all of these recommendations is that you need an identity online. It almost seems like if you solve the identity p

Secure scuttlebutt (SSB) anyone? The core of all of these recommendations is that you need an identity online. It almost seems like if you solve the identity problem (like how various blockchains deal with it with addresses and wallets) you can get all the rest as easy follow ons. Mastodon still ties identity with a machine online much like email. Even SSB ties identity to your machine. Even what Sir T.B.L. is proposing - a "data pod" per person - seems to tie identity with a machine online. Are there no other solutions to this?