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by ISL 1318 days ago
Centralizing the decentralized... what's old is new again?

Seems like the centralization of relationships and credentials ought to be client-side, or a portable protocol all its own, so we don't repeat the mistake of centralizing the most-important data.
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Lws803 1318 days ago
> Centralizing the decentralized... what's old is new again?

haha you're not wrong, but imo this is a critical part to centralize though. I haven't seen an easy to use (wallet not required) and trusted solution yet for decentralizing auth. Maybe it's underway and I'd be happy to adopt that once it's good.

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mawise 1318 days ago
IndieAuth[1] is a slick DNS-based approach. Maybe offering that as a service would be a nice alternative. I point my DNS to you, and you handle authentication for everything that uses IndieAuth. If you go away or I don't like what you're doing then I can point my DNS to someone else offering that service and I retain the same DNS identity, and ability to use it to login anywhere I've set it up as my identity.

IndieAuth.com[2] sort of does this already, but it delegates to a "social" login (Facebook/Twitter/Github/Google/etc).

[1]: https://indieweb.org/IndieAuth

[2]: https://indieauth.com/

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ISL 1318 days ago
One can readily argue that it is simultaneously the most-important part to decentralize. Identity and personal-network are essential to a person's function in modern society.
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