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And that will quickly reverse once people start losing their accounts by losing passkeys or devices. My extended family fought me about migrating to Signal for
by gavinhoward 2y ago
And that will quickly reverse once people start losing their accounts by losing passkeys or devices.
My extended family fought me about migrating to Signal for years. I stopped trying. One or two years later, they were all on it, acting as if they hadn't given me grief for it.
They have learned their lesson, though. A couple of them have come to me asking about passkeys, and I tell them the threat of losing access and let them make their decision. I think both of them chose to keep passwords.
- Groxx 2y agoEvery person I've talked to in person who has used passkeys has lost all their passkeys at least once, by no fault of their own. The more techno-masochistic ones tried again immediately out of curiosity (hence "at least"), but the rest have sworn off passkeys permanently. And I don't blame them. Without cross-platform sync being standard and literally everywhere, it's trusting hardware and OS vendors to do a good job and inter-operate correctly for the long-term future. They've all used computers for long enough to know that's not something you can trust them with, particularly not in low-margin devices like most people use.
- notatoad 2y agoi think you're overestimating how good people are about maintaing their passwords. if you tell people "you'll lose your passkey and have to reset it" they'll freak out. but most people lose their passwords and get locked out of their account on a somewhat regular basis anyways. people suck at passwords. if they can have that level of reliability with a bit more everyday convenience, they'll be happy.