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I keep digging (since the site isn't breaking, yay!) but it just keeps not looking good. On the github, in the last month, a total of four people have committed code eleven times. One committed more than all the others combined. Also, I originally said: > Feel free to try and convince me, but I have never seen the point in tying my uptime to the uptime of a third party, and allowing a third party to revoke my users a…
Persona is not necessarily tied to gmail. Persona offers a gmail gateway. As long as a user has a way of authenticating against the persona server using the provided email, they are fine. This could be their facebook account just as well. Maybe you should talk to Dan Callahan, he'll be happy to answer your questions in more details I'm sure. I'm saying that because you sound like Persona could benefit you and Persona…
> They put their internet life into the hands of Google or Yahoo or whatever by choosing such an email provider that may go down at any time. It's completely reasonable and does not actually put YOU in a position where your sites locks users into a third party, you are just giving more choice.
It's not reasonable. Not to me anyway. And isn't putting your internet life into the hands of any single place exactly antithetical to the entire idea of decentralization?
> it may not be perfect, but it is far better than what is currently taking over the entire web.
It's better than Facebook Connect or things like that, sure. But we aren't comparing it to that, we're comparing it to individual logins. Individual logins put the relationship into the hands of the users and me. That's where it should be.
KeePass and apps like that provide all of the major benefits to users without any of the downsides.