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1. silverpill (silverpill@mitra.social)'s status on Saturday, 13-May-2023 03:09:57 JST silverpill

   Keys vs passwords. Pretty good article on the subject:

   https://open.substack.com/pub/subconscious/p/trustless-protocols-are-better-than

   >You can always implement key custody on top of user-owned keys. If you want key custody, you can have key custody. If you want a cold wallet, you can have a cold wallet. Trustful protocols bake assumptions about authority directly into the infrastructure. Trustless protocols give you the choice.

   The great thing about Fediverse is that we can have both traditional identities and identities based on keys.

   • unsafe { Sir Alecks Gates } (agates@activitypub.agates.io)'s status on Saturday, 13-May-2023 04:50:44 JST unsafe { Sir Alecks Gates }

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     What I think a lot of people don't realize is how extensible systems like the Fediverse are. It's unfortunately very common, even within the developer sphere, to assume that something can't be done just because it hasn't been done.
     
     I wonder why that is.
   • silverpill (silverpill@mitra.social)'s status on Saturday, 13-May-2023 04:50:44 JST silverpill

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     • unsafe { Sir Alecks Gates }

     @agates I think this is because blockchain communities and FOSS communities almost don't overlap. The idea of "trustless" systems is very popular in crypto bubble, and people outside of that bubble tend to reject ideas coming from it.
     DID standard is a good example. It has a bad reputation just because specs contain mentions of "distributed ledgers".

     Another reason is probably Mastodon, which eclipses the underlying protocols and other fedi platforms.