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Eartho sounds like a something a user wants. We have found that privacy is an added bonus, but that it is only one of many features a developer wants. Adding yet another button tha…

Learning Digital Identity by Phil Windley is a great resource as long as you skip over the SSI parts https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/learning-digital-identi...

Nice to hear that has stood the test of time. :)

OAuth 2.1 has no new features. It is OAuth 2.0 rolled up with all the specs since 2.0. It is the better place to start for learning about delegated authorization.

OAuth 2.0 took the best features of what was already being deployed by Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, etc. and added in scopes and refresh tokens. The objective was to standardize how t…

thanks! ... just like SSO -- it does not seem hard in a demo that has made it easy!

Free login and verified email, unlimited MAU https://www.hello.dev/pricing/

Hey HN, I’m Dick Hardt[1][2][3], and I’m the founder of Hellō. Hellō is a new paradigm in Identity as a Service that empowers the user, simplifies development, and has a much lower…

Tl;dr: If you are a developer considering adding World ID to your project. Wait. If you see an app using World ID. Be safe. The OAuth Best Security Current Practices have not been …

The OP conflates the fediverse with Mastodon, and my understanding of his key point is that it is doomed because Mastodon is complicated to run. As the operator of https://press.co…

ActivityPub is the core protocol and is a W3C standard Mastodon is the most popular implementation currently, but there are many other implementations in the fediverse

When I first looked at Mastodon, I had to choose between applying for an account, or choosing open enrollment to a server that had moderation issues. We created verified.coop for p…

doh -- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33177705

The blockchain aspect is not supposed to get you excited. :) As a co-operative we don't have equity to sell for financing. Tokens enable us to separate ROI from governance, and man…

Agree that there have been many failures in the smart contract market. In contrast to many crypto projects, we are only using smart contracts for financing Hellō so that we can sep…

As a developer, you don't know which provider the user has chosen, and the provider does not know which apps the user is using, improving privacy and resiliency. > And it likely co…

Thanks for sharing! I’ve moved discord up in our priorities. Feel free to reach out directly.

I founded Hellō to solve this problem. A neutral service where you get to choose how to login, and how you can recover your Hellō Wallet. Done. See Show HN post I wrote this mornin…

Q: how many of you will add support to Passkeys to your application? Is it worth the effort of adding yet-another-way-to-login for your users? It will be a long time before you cou…

I founded Hellō to address your concerns. Check out the Show HN post I wrote this morning. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33177705#33182379

Supporting the initiative is one reason to join. Influencing the direction of the co-operative is another. Our current corporate members want Hellō to succeed as it will help their…

Thanks! [həˈləʊ] just like "hello" =)

Thanks for the kind words!