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„At first it looks like Social Sign-In fragmentation but it's not. These are competing wallet UIs that all use the same basic Eth account sys“ How does any of

„At first it looks like Social Sign-In fragmentation but it's not. These are competing wallet UIs that all use the same basic Eth account sys“ How does any of this make it easier for me as a user? Competing wallets, competing social logins, all the same at the and with the difference that username/pw is easily portable to another one of my systems. Oh I chose a wallet that doesn‘t have a client on that other platform I use, too bad. Okay I can use a different one, let me just safely transfer my keypairs… It might be better to centralize the identity layer instead of going the OIDC route of having many identity silos but a shared protocol; so your identity is actually a singleton but from a usage perspective I doubt this will solve anything.

soared 5y ago
Agreed - this same like the same exact issue as social sign on, but just one layer removed. You still need to use a third party vendor to manage your data and sign in with.
- ElijahLynn 5y ago
  non-educated Ethereum question here: But the third parties can compete and all manage the same data on the Ethereum block chain right? e.g. I could use any service to login with same data, so if one went defunct, could I just choose another?
sergiomattei 5y ago
I think this is a problem that can be solved with a degree of centralization, say a simple website that allows you to manage your identity: everywhere from ENS to SSO in one place. Sure, you could argue that it's going back to the old model, but the underpinnings are still open and the only way the tech will make it to the mainstream is with centralization.