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Maybe we can connect directly? I would like to learn more. Drop me a DM

Counterpoint - software now is so pervasive and essential to human society that we need to be a lot more careful, vs longing for a lost era of dream-it build-it. You can build a dream house by yourself in the wilderness, but cities have building codes so they don't burn down, blot out the sun, etc.

Thanks for all of these.

I’m sorry, I had the impression that you lost your followers if you switched servers. I’ll try to learn more about this.

Making it trivially easy to get anonymous accounts capable of immediately broadcasting to hundreds of millions of people was an enormous gift to the world’s bad actors.

I’m in. I will dress up as something appropriately scary — a two-thousand-year-old immortal who emerges from his frozen lair once a year, donned in blood-red furs, in order to break into the homes of millions of children.

You can be a reindeer.

Suggestion to increase trust in your assertions here: publish the entire, unredacted pilot study, and make the researchers who did it available for both questions from academics and press interviews.

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>Fediverse doesn’t use DIDs
>There is a proposal out there for a Fediverse-specific DID, but I am not aware of it being implemented anywhere yet.

There is another proposal that has 3 implementations: https://fediverse.codeberg.page/fep/fep/ef61/

Awesome, thanks for flagging this! I am sorry I missed it in the piece.

Yeah, fair enough that it's not so much the tech. It's that having 40 million accounts on a working DID implementation seems like a powerful asset for building the overall decentralized identity space. Convince other platforms to support it, add more information to each record, etc.

Thanks for the clarification. I'll look at making an update to the Web version later today.

Thanks for everything you've done and are doing, BTW. Really clever and important stuff. LMK if I can ever be helpful.

Thanks!

Sorry about the AI, my wife harasses me whenever I use it too. Most of the art on the newsletter is by real humans but sometimes I don't get the assignment out early enough in the week or want to try something like the logos-to-flags trick this week.

💯 this is why I like DID:PLC so much now that it's spinning off into its own thing. It could grow and change and be so much more.

Do you know who's working on that spinoff?