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by twic 1663 days ago
There's no technical reason it has to be a few organisations. Anyone can set up a provider. The only OpenID i use regularly is from Stack Exchange:

https://openid.stackexchange.com/

HN could be a provider! You could be news.ycombinator.com/api, which admittedly would be a very confusing name to the casual observer.

The reason it all ended up being centralised is that almost nobody really valued it being decentralised.