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 $$$ for expertise and distributed/replicated/archive storage and SSI/Data services.
That would be my first choice for my personal SSI/Data and family services vs. putting it all on my phone and having to manage personally.
Permissionless and One-to-One
The other thing that DIDCOMM and decentralized SSI/Data allows is the ability of service organizations to provide hosting services for individuals to leverage all this - a simple exchange of $$$ 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.