spent the day doing things i am absolutely not qualified to do.

my digital identity is now crypto-graphically verifiable across mastodon, matrix, xmpp, and two domains.

no, i will not be taking questions about what any of that means.

https://keyoxide.org/[email protected]

#DNS #XMPP #PGP #OpenPGP #Keyoxide #Matrix #Mastodon #DecentralizedIdentity #FOSS

I want a system that allows users to prove, using a public/private key pair and nothing else, that they really are who they claim to be online, and to create a web of trust with each other, etc.  "Users" in this case includes me because I would definitely use that.  The two examples I gave, or something close enough, already exist but apart from each other; Keyoxide is the former and the latter is (or was, and I'm not sure which) a project by FUTO called Harbor.  I want all of that in one.  I also want a feature I would probably never use myself, although I still think it should exist because other people would use it, and I think it should exist on principle anyway: you should, ideally, be able to cryptographically prove your real world identity online and vice versa.  That system doesn't already exist AFAIK (and if I'm wrong, please tell me what it's called).  I, personally, have no desire to start using my government name, either here or on any kind af social media anywhere.  However, that is a thing some people do and it apparently makes sense in their case.  So those people should be able to prove that without uploading any official documents, if they want.  People should be able to prove their own claims, create a web of trust with each other, and prove their real world identity if they want to.  People should be able to do that cryptographically, without requiring anything other than said keys—and they should be able to do all of that in the same place and easily.  If we could get to that point, more and more people would do exactly that, and the Internet would change for the better.

#Privacy #PrivacyMatters #AgeVerification #Keyoxide #FUTO #SocialMedia #Cryptography

Breaking! Well, not really, I'm a day late.

#Keytrace launched publicly! Keytrace is the alternative to #Keybase for verying your accounts. One could say it's like #Keyoxide too but lives in the ATmosphere network.

https://keytrace.dev/blog/introducing-keytrace

spent time creating and adding to my #Keyoxide profile, during which I came across some interesting things popping up. #Anime sites just don't work for me for some reason (#MAL, #Anilist, #Anime-Planet, #Anisocial, etc.). #TikTok has an 80-character limit on their bio.

upon rereading that and reflecting on the tone: i actually like keyoxide in general.