Re:The decentralized web and the future of Section 230
by Arathorn on Friday November 18, 2022 @06:00PM
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what? you don't need an authentication provider like Microsoft to use Matrix! You just sign up with a username/password on the server :)
Re:The decentralized web and the future of Section 230
by SaltySolomon on Friday November 18, 2022 @06:22PM
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No, you don't need a single authentication provider, you can use more or less what you want/need and there is nothing for it mandatory in the protocol.
What currently is kinda centralized is an identity matching service, but even that is completly optional and will bec replaced by something more federated at some point.
Re:The decentralized web and the future of Section 230
by encryptluks2 on Saturday November 19, 2022 @12:44AM
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It isn't and Matrix is about as decentralized as Gmail or Microsoft Outlook.
Re:The decentralized web and the future of Section 230
by Arathorn on Saturday November 19, 2022 @01:22PM
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if the amount of FUD that gets levelled against Matrix was converted into work on other solutions, Matrix wouldn’t need to exist.
Re:The decentralized web and the future of Section 230
by encryptluks2 on Saturday November 19, 2022 @09:15PM
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Other solutions exists. XMPP has been around for a long time.
So all authenticate with Microsoft.
I create a user for them at my server which is still be needed to have the at least the timeline saved.
At which point I have decentralisation here?
And because I can’t handle the traffic on my raspberry I host this on a PaaS/SaaS provider like AWS.
That would assume all web servers are decentralised web3 technologies.