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by idotcom 461 days ago
First of all, really cool project.

But are these projects truly decentralized, or are they just government-led initiatives wrapped in decentralization rhetoric? lol. What percentage of these efforts genuinely aim for SSI rather than state-controlled digital IDs?

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Its a sliding scale: there are definitely a number of projects out there claiming to be self sovereign identity solutions while pretty much creating new centralized future honeypots for potential breaches. Since the map also has information about tech stacks used by each project, the users can form their own opinions on a case by case basis.

Since this data will be released under CC BY 4.0 after the current public beta quality assurance, perhaps in the future the dataset will serve as a starting point for the SSI community to explore exactly those questions.

(I was also working on this project with lrock.)