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If you don't want to sign up, then just lurk! I often go from just reading the posts to reading posts and comments to talking about the site elsewhere to signi

If you don't want to sign up, then just lurk! I often go from just reading the posts to reading posts and comments to talking about the site elsewhere to signing up and just posting there. Having used federated comment systems, they've been a complete loss. They increase page load times, lead to more low-quality drive-by comments and then inevitably eventually start trying to load their ads on my page. The one exception is crypto sites, where people just log in with their wallet creds. Those are pseudonymous, shared across sites and have very frictionless UX. That would be a highly polarizing choice for a non-crypto-focused site, though.

cuteboy19 5y ago
It's the equivalent of sharing your bank account number with scammysitedotcom. Even if there are no security implications, sharing your entire financial history with any website is very privacy hostile.
- 3np 5y ago
  Not necessarily. You should use a different account (preferably one with 0 transaction history, if no on-chain txes are needed) than your main financial account (and really, anyone not living paycheck to paycheck should have more than one of those in the first place. Cold/hot, have a separate one for any defi activities, use a new one for each L2, etc) Just like you may not have the same email for job applications and dodgy e-commerce, or bring all your cash and cards with you in a purse to the nightclub. (GP did say “shared across sites”, which should be a very deliberate decision and not the default. UX needs to improve to have better privacy by default. I could imagine Metamask defaulting to generating and connecting a unique address for each domain, requiring manually selecting accounts to have them shared)
- AlchemistCamp 5y ago
  Based on your comment, I'm guessing you've never used Metamask or similar before. You really should check it out and see just how trivial creating a new wallet is. HD wallets lend themselves to this kind of UX.
3np 5y ago
Got any links to such crypto sites where they’re used for auth for comments and social? It’s something I’ve been theorizing for years, would be great to see in the wild.
- AlchemistCamp 5y ago
  https://bitclout.com https://bitclout.com
  - 3np 5y ago
    Cheers. It looks like it directly answers my question but not quite what I had in mind (pushes for linking Google account and email; requires phone number verification for the "free" signup airdrop to get the platform-specific coins required to participate; frankly looks quite sketchy and faux-decentralized)
    - AlchemistCamp 5y ago
      Oh, interesting. I never linked mine to Google or a phone. Maybe they changed the requirements for airdropping later on. It's not that centralized though. I know of multiple projects that ran custom nodes of it for their own front-ends / customizations of the network. That's something that you just couldn't do with Twitter. The project did seem a bit like a quick cash grab though, and I'm not sure it will ever return to the peak it hit last spring.

cuteboy19 5y ago

It's the equivalent of sharing your bank account number with scammysitedotcom. Even if there are no security implications, sharing your entire financial history with any website is very privacy hostile.

3np 5y ago
Not necessarily. You should use a different account (preferably one with 0 transaction history, if no on-chain txes are needed) than your main financial account (and really, anyone not living paycheck to paycheck should have more than one of those in the first place. Cold/hot, have a separate one for any defi activities, use a new one for each L2, etc) Just like you may not have the same email for job applications and dodgy e-commerce, or bring all your cash and cards with you in a purse to the nightclub. (GP did say “shared across sites”, which should be a very deliberate decision and not the default. UX needs to improve to have better privacy by default. I could imagine Metamask defaulting to generating and connecting a unique address for each domain, requiring manually selecting accounts to have them shared)
AlchemistCamp 5y ago
Based on your comment, I'm guessing you've never used Metamask or similar before. You really should check it out and see just how trivial creating a new wallet is. HD wallets lend themselves to this kind of UX.

3np 5y ago

Got any links to such crypto sites where they’re used for auth for comments and social? It’s something I’ve been theorizing for years, would be great to see in the wild.

AlchemistCamp 5y ago
https://bitclout.com https://bitclout.com
- 3np 5y ago
  Cheers. It looks like it directly answers my question but not quite what I had in mind (pushes for linking Google account and email; requires phone number verification for the "free" signup airdrop to get the platform-specific coins required to participate; frankly looks quite sketchy and faux-decentralized)
  - AlchemistCamp 5y ago
    Oh, interesting. I never linked mine to Google or a phone. Maybe they changed the requirements for airdropping later on. It's not that centralized though. I know of multiple projects that ran custom nodes of it for their own front-ends / customizations of the network. That's something that you just couldn't do with Twitter. The project did seem a bit like a quick cash grab though, and I'm not sure it will ever return to the peak it hit last spring.