A long-term, publicly-visible identity is THE KEY FEATURE of Twitter, I think. I've put a lot of work into mine… About to lose that? 29/
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Replying to @Meaningness
To invest serious effort in a social network identity, you should believe that it will still exist years from now. How? 30/
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YOU SHOULD OWN your network identity! You can't entrust it to Facebook (evil!) or Twitter (collapsing?) or Mastodon (collapsing!). 31/
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You should be certain you can move your identity to a new provider, without losing your followers, or any content you created. 32/
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You should pay a cloud provider a few dollars a month to run YOUR software that maintains YOUR identity, that YOU can move anywhere. 33/
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If YOU pay for portable identity maintenance, your provider's incentive is to protect YOUR privacy and security. Or you'll move. 34/
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If YOU own your network identity, YOU—not some corporation—can choose what information to see, and who you want to interact with! 35/
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This is why I think ethereum/swarm based web 3.0 is so interesting You have decentralized hosting blockchain DNS and a universal micopayment
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Replying to @BenDMahala
Yeeehs… I don’t think that particular approach is going to work, but it’s pointing in the right general direction!
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what do you think the problem is? (honestly interested)
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Doesn’t scale; too complicated => big mass of bugs; Turing-complete programming language makes security impossible; …
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