Show HN: Privacy-Focused Alternative to Google Docs and Microsoft Word

Re:Show HN: Privacy-Focused Alternative to Google Docs and M... by ocdtrekkie on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @12:40PM (#20687471)

I am really confused how it's supposed to be "decentralized" if you have to have a sign-in with a specific provider to use it.

Can you log in if Blockstack-the-company goes down or has a technical issue?

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Re:Show HN: Privacy-Focused Alternative to Google Docs and M... by Walterion on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @01:16PM (#20687921)

Your identity is on the blockchain and that is decentralized so even in that case you or anyone can run a separate node to handle them. Also all the auth library is open source so anyone can work on that.

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Re:Show HN: Privacy-Focused Alternative to Google Docs and M... by russdpale on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @01:31PM (#20688108)

Its a distributed database, it doesn't matter if the blockstack company takes a long walk off of a short pier.

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