Gregory's ServerIt’s basically impossible to be fully decentralized. Even if we’re sending around IP addresses to each other, they’re still attached to your ISP. Federation and decentralization aren’t the same thing (which I’m sure you know), so I think we can agree that Twitter’s rationale is mad gay.
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 I wasn’t even considering account recovery in this but you are correct. Since you mention public/private key encryption in the context of decentralization, when I was in university I was under this professor who was really into wireless mesh topologies with that kind of encryption. I should ask him how well they’re coming along. I know the idea has been floating around for decades, but implementation details have precluded its viability. |
NEETzsche, they keep pushing the idea that a public key is a valid form of identity. I keep responding to that that in the real world, account recovery and access revocation are hard requirements. People are terrible enough with passwords, and you expect them to both keep their private key secret and not lose it. This kind of thinking is just plain delusional.