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Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• MagicShel@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  • It’s a communication tool
  • It’s a unique identity
  • You can have more than one
  • It is platform agnostic
  • It’s anonymous

  That’s a fairly nice set of attributes.

  What would you propose instead? I’m not arguing or anything just genuinely curious what it would be replaced with. Maybe some kind of cryptographic identity, I guess?

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  • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It’s a communication tool

    So is BlueSky

    It’s a unique identity

    As is 4093rnbgv3q09vn032

    You can have more than one

    More than one what? Email? How about zero?

    It’s platform agnostic

    There are a thousand platform-agnostic communication methods.

    It’s anonymous

    Email? LOL absolutely not.

    It’s transferable

    It’s only transferable if you use your own domain, which the vast majority are not doing.

    What would you propose instead?

    That depends on the purpose. You can receive messages and notifications right in the app, so for the purposes of communication I would propose absolutely nothing.

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    • MagicShel@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      It’s all of the above at once. It’s hard to think of another identifier that hits them all.

      4093rnbgv3q09vn032

      It’s not a communication method outside of the platform it’s on. It’s also not platform agnostic if it’s your identity on a service.

      I have several email addresses that are not remotely associated with any legal identity that I could transfer to someone that took over associated projects should the need arise.

      It looks like your complaint is as a user, not the service owner? I wouldn’t run a project like that, but feel free to start one up. Lots of people would appreciate that, I’m sure.

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      • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        It’s all of the above at once. It’s hard to think of another identifier that hits them all.

        I already gave you one. The username.

        It’s not a communication method outside of the platform it’s on.

        Why is that necessary?

        It looks like your complaint is as a user, not the service owner?

        My complaint, as someone who hosts a variety of services, is that setting up an email server is ridiculously complicated, costs money, and is completely unnecessary.

        Recently Ghost updated their software to add 2FA for email. Not TOTP or Passkeys, or anything actually secure, those are still unavailable. After updating I was completely locked out of my own account because it was trying to verify my login using a system that doesn’t exist on my install. It was a super annoying and completely unnecessary problem I had to deal with.

        I wouldn’t run a project like that, but feel free to start one up.

        Great, I’ll just go ahead and fork every open source project in existence on my own to remove this feature using the software engineering degree and the time I don’t have.

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