In a recent post, Clive Thompson speaks of the humble cassette tape as a medium that had a a weirdly Internet-like vibe. Clive is focusing on how the cassette tape unlocked creativity, but in doing so he describes its properties in a way that is helpful to discussions about online relationships in general.
The other thing that DIDCOMM and decentralized SSI/Data allows is the ability of service organizations to provide hosting services for individuals to leverage all this - a simple exchange of $$$ for expertise and distributed/replicated/archive storage and SSI/Data services.
That would be my first choice for my personal SSI/Data and family services vs. putting it all on my phone and having to manage personally.
Yes, and that's why the focus on "decentralization" is misguided. The issue isn't that you're using a service to aid your on online existence. The issue is that that service is not an *intervening* authority. They don't sit between you and others and if they kick you off, for whatever reason, you just go get another.
The other thing that DIDCOMM and decentralized SSI/Data allows is the ability of service organizations to provide hosting services for individuals to leverage all this - a simple exchange of $$$ for expertise and distributed/replicated/archive storage and SSI/Data services.
That would be my first choice for my personal SSI/Data and family services vs. putting it all on my phone and having to manage personally.
Yes, and that's why the focus on "decentralization" is misguided. The issue isn't that you're using a service to aid your on online existence. The issue is that that service is not an *intervening* authority. They don't sit between you and others and if they kick you off, for whatever reason, you just go get another.