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Re:Tim Berners-Lee: ‘Web3 is not the web at all’ by dcolkitt on Saturday November 05, 2022 @12:29AM (#33477976)
You don't see any value to people owning their own crypto keys and identity instead of relying on a centralized party like Facebook?

I'm not even talking about digital assets. I'm purely talking about the ability of someone to sign their own emails without being dependent on a monopoly like Gmail to do it for them.

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Re:Tim Berners-Lee: ‘Web3 is not the web at all’ by Nursie on Saturday November 05, 2022 @12:35AM (#33478008)
I don’t see that for most people this any sort of enabling technology, no. In fact I think for average humans that delegation is a very worthwhile service.
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Re:Tim Berners-Lee: ‘Web3 is not the web at all’ by catach on Saturday November 05, 2022 @01:43AM (#33478340)
> I'm purely talking about the ability of someone to sign their own emails without being dependent on a monopoly like Gmail to do it for them.

What is blockchain adding for this usecase that's beyond what PGP [1] offers?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Good_Privacy

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Re:Tim Berners-Lee: ‘Web3 is not the web at all’ by kkielhofner on Saturday November 05, 2022 @04:50AM (#33479346)
No.

The centralized platforms and social networks you reference have tens of millions to billions of users.

I would not be surprised at all if between all of them they do millions of password resets daily.

No matter how much the crypto community tries to force it people forget stuff and mess things up.

The concept of average users managing their own keys is DOA.

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