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First Steps of the PLC Organization – Independent Public Ledger of Credentials

22 pointsby 1h agoblog.plcred.org
8 comments
49m agoHN ↗

Just curious, how is this different from something like a PGP key server?

11m agoHN ↗

The same difference between Dropbox vs an FTP account.

29m agoHN ↗

Better than the eyeball-scanning ghouls.

24m agoHN ↗

atproto is currently permissionless world readable, that seems worse to most people (I asked low 100s) than being in a siloed platform with some amount of control over who can see their content

oh, maybe you mean Sam Altman's World with their eye scanning for identity, that is quite dystopian

11m agoHN ↗

Yes I was referring to Altman's "WorldCoin" eyeball-scanning scheme.

18m agoHN ↗

This might be one of the closest things I've seen to actually being able to own your account - instead of having it not just owned by a second party in every way that matters, but also beholden to a third party via an e-mail or a phone number you can't possibly own in any meaningful way.

That's pretty important in a world where the likes of Google can and will just reject your attempt to log in with a valid password on the grounds of "we don't like you", and force you to "confirm" yourself using a phone number that's defunct since 2009.

The issue is, as often is the case, adoption.

11m agoHN ↗

did:web is closer to owning your own identity, this is a central database controlled by an organization

The PLC makes it easy for Bluesky to be a custodian and onboard new users