Re:Bluesky partners with Namecheap to power domains as usern...
by anileated on Friday July 07, 2023 @03:47AM
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There can be two kinds of identities: your actual legal one and ones you should be okay with losing.
People keep devising more and more involved ways to maintain identities other than your legal one, but if you think about it you can still lose any of those and no one should use them for anything serious.
Re:Bluesky partners with Namecheap to power domains as usern...
by cout on Friday July 07, 2023 @08:13AM
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Identity also needs to be hard to copy (which is the main reason e.g. you would not want to use your a hash of your DNA as an identity -- it would be hard to lose but easy to copy).
Re:Bluesky partners with Namecheap to power domains as usern...
by mstipetic on Friday July 07, 2023 @02:48PM
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How hard is it to run a registrar? I’d assume there are decent open source components to manage it. It’s basically a key value store. Why couldn’t governments provide a stable domain name for each individual?
For individuals, the cost of losing your domain is far too high if it means losing your identity on multiple services at the same time. And, if nothing else, people eventually die, so domains will be lost by their original owner and then re-used, breaking the notion of identity again in the longer run.