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Too bad we don't have a viable decentralized option, I don't at all relish the idea of Facebook Inc. owning my online identity.

• ryukafalz 11y ago
  Diaspora. Friendica. Pump.io. If you're more technically inclined, you can self-host one of many: https://indiewebcamp.com/projects https://indiewebcamp.com/projects There isn't just one alternative, and I don't think there really should be - the fact that most of them are interoperable means that not everyone has to be using the same software. We need to standardize on a protocol, not so much an implementation. (But yes, there does need to be a nice-looking implementation if we want the general public to use it.)
  • juliangregorian 11y ago
    Merely having wide adoption of OpenID or Mozilla Persona would be a worthy start. I just don't have much faith in these idealistic open source projects these days; when I google "diaspora oauth" and the first thing I find is abandonware (https://github.com/diaspora/diaspora-client https://github.com/diaspora/diaspora-client), it pretty much confirms my cynicism. "Nice-looking" isn't the only thing we need from identity management.
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    • ryukafalz 11y ago
      Ah, okay, you were referring to identity in the technical sense rather than the social sense. I agree that increased adoption of OpenID or Persona would be great. Persona holds the most promise in my opinion, since it's similar enough to existing sign-in systems as to not confuse the average user... but it does require providers to actually use it. IndieAuth is interesting too: https://indieauth.com/ https://indieauth.com/