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I really hate when my identity is provided to me by some third party. It universally applies to both social networks and Persona. I don't like the very idea of
by drdaeman 14y ago
I really hate when my identity is provided to me by some third party. It universally applies to both social networks and Persona. I don't like the very idea of leasing my own identity.
This said, I really wish Persona project will fail as much as possible.
I only hope there'll be a day I'll finally truly possess my own network identities, and third parties (social networks, email providers, etc) will act as notaries who just assert them for others to verify.
- TheCoelacanth 14y ago> I only hope there'll be a day I'll finally truly possess my own network identities, and third parties (social networks, email providers, etc) will act as notaries who just assert them for others to verify. If you have your own domain name, that's exactly what Persona does. The protocol is completely decentralized. Mozilla only provides a fallback for domains that don't support Persona.
- drdaeman 14y agoI believe domain names are still inappropriate for identities. Even XRI i-numbers was a better idea. One just can't own a domain name. It only can be leased for a limited time, for a price, and even then, at least in some TLDs one can't be sure the lease won't be revoked at someone's whim. There's no real difference whenever one leases email address from a provider or domain name from a registrar. Maybe I'm overzealous about it, but I really wish to be the source of my own identity and posess it like I posess my GPG key.