Re: A private Internet? (was: Re: Venting about forums.debian.net)
On 2026-01-21, Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> wrote:
>
> Decentralized identity providers exist that can be self-hosted, like
> OAuth. These are highly obscure and probably a dead end: anything that
> can be self-hosted can be abused to create infinite identities.
> Important services won't want to trust an identity provider that they
> don't control, again unless mandated to by law,
If you want decentralized identity, the correct stack is:
DID + Wallet + Verifiable Credentials + Blockchain anchoring
Not OAuth.
Not Google.
Not a central provider.
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