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Very cool! I like it! What about using Nostr relays to also back up your data passwords? I built a library called Tablinum around this idea. Local first but backed up to Nostr rela…

That's a lot of information about something that does not really matter in practice. It's not until ew get to the very end of your comment that we get to the actually relevant part…

Where are your rotation and signing keys stored? Who can access them? Talking here about the majority case.

Nope. When I’m talking about identity I’m speaking strictly of the keys that sign your messages and the pub key derived from it. In every other cryptographic system that is your id…

That’s a very narrow definition of decentralisation. In any case - both atproto and fediverse are massively centralised compared to something like Nostr, and it’s not even close. T…

You won’t have decentralisation on Atproto because the protocol itself incentivises centralisation.

The end of the article explains why this isn’t necessarily better than a centralised service. Yes - you can self host but no one (yes, there a few exceptions) does in practice. You…

The point of the article is that 99.9% of users will not take custodial control of their identity - not that they can’t.

Yes - the trade off is centralisation.

Atproto is not decentralised, it’s faux decentralised. You can technically be sovereign, but incentives and the way things have been done results in massive centralisation - 99.9% …

It’s great that tings like this exist but as long as this is how identities work on ATProto it’s unfortunately going to be a niche thing.

You can just read the documentation: https://atproto.com/guides/overview#account-portability “The signing key is entrusted to the PDS so that it can manage the user's data, but rot…

Yes you can but the vast majority don’t, and that is what matters. When Bluesky goes rogue because of profitability issues or VC pressure, the vast vast majority of users lose thei…

Correct, but it’s not decentralized in any meaningful way, which is what a lot of ATProto proponents want you to believe. No one (not literally of course) self hosts their PDS. Lik…

Looking at the studies on the site I’m only seeing comparisons vs placebo and activated charcoal - why not compare to non modified regular beta glucan that is in most oats?

Not parent but I wrote an article about how PDSs (the thing that hosts your data) control your signing and rotation keys. It's technically possible to self-host but as always, the …

There is - https://flotilla.social/

Yes. Here are some specifications that describe it: https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/master/17.md and https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/master/59.md

So if a user is banned from their PDS and they haven't backed up their keys, the community is screwed? That seems like a pretty big flaw.

Yep! People in the Bitcoin space have been screaming at the top of their lungs about this for decades at this point, but it's hard to work against the marketing machine that comes …

On the other hand, shining a light on things that are not what they seem is very good, which is what I tried to do.

I did, we just have different views of what decentralized means.