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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Portable network identity is somewhat technically difficult; and probably requires micropayments as synergistic ecosystem, as well. 36/
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Tipping point, of majority reluctant to use current web, possible within a few years. Need to start building alternatives now! 37/
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Only attempt I know is
@urbit_. Promising in many ways; seems off in others. I hope others work on this problem! 38/4 replies 6 retweets 15 likes -
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Another cool thing to watch: https://maidsafe.net/
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Yes, thanks, I have a corner of my eye on that!
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