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Re:Jack Dorsey Unveils Bluesky Social, the Decentralized Twi... by abdullahkhalids on Monday October 24, 2022 @07:56PM (#33324312)
> I think they're spot on with needing control over your identity, and them being transferable.

I guess this means you need to store some sort of key that can be used to create a persistent id across servers. Which is great. But we need an explicit mechanism to avoid people having to trust a centralized authority to store that key. Storing on their own devices is going to inevitably result in people losing that key.

I don't know if secret sharing can ever be dumbed down and simplified that the average non-tech person can use without getting confused.

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Re:Jack Dorsey Unveils Bluesky Social, the Decentralized Twi... by micropresident on Monday October 24, 2022 @08:03PM (#33324367)
Yup. The UX is going to be tricky. In the system I'm building there's a shared-everything KV store that your client publishes to similar to their system. I've got a system worked out for recovering your account in a decentralized way if a trojan exposes your key. However, I think there will be a need for services that help with this.
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