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Christopher Allen (@ChristopherA@mastodon.social)

In general, human-readable globally unique names have become a 30-year repeating anti-pattern causing lots of problems. Zooko's Triangle may have been solved technically, but not socially. Learn about nyms & petnames — they are how the brain works anyhow!

rwot1-sf/linked-local-names.md at master · WebOfTrustInfo/rwot1-sf

RWOT1 in San Francisco, California (November 2015) - rwot1-sf/linked-local-names.md at master · WebOfTrustInfo/rwot1-sf

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Christopher Allen (@ChristopherA@mastodon.social)

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): github.com/WebOfTrustInfo github.com/WebOfTrustInfo

rwot6-santabarbara/petnames.md at 238be6d91a8929696bba90cefa7af1a67a1a3bbd · WebOfTrustInfo/rwot6...

RWOT6 in Santa Barbara, California (March 2018). Contribute to WebOfTrustInfo/rwot6-santabarbara development by creating an account on GitHub.

6:27 AM · Jan 5, 2022

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Is that right,

? You felt this solved the triangle? IMO, it doesn’t sound like it achieves "securely unique", since it would be prone to mimicry. web.archive.org/web/2016033117

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octodon.social/@cwebber (Christine Lemmer-Webber)

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I finally just saw what the *top* of this thread was about, lol So speaking of RWoT papers, let's link this one:

rebooting-the-web-of-trust-spring2018/petnames.md at petnames · cwebber/rebooting-the-web-of-trus...

RWOT6 in Santa Barbara, California. Contribute to cwebber/rebooting-the-web-of-trust-spring2018 development by creating an account on GitHub.

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