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/ Colby SerpašŸ’”
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2024-03-26 18:07:06

Colby SerpašŸ’” on Nostr: The Web of Signatures šŸŒ At first I liked ā€œverifiable webā€ ā€” but after ...

The Web of Signatures šŸŒ

At first I liked ā€œverifiable webā€ ā€” but after thinking, it sounds a bit like weā€™re a bunch of KYC blue checks šŸ’€ ā€” the opposite of what we should beā€¦
The Web is taken.

They control your data: Servers can change anything you send at any time: E-mails, medical records, private family pictures, social media posts, orders etc. You won't even notice it. Not only they can change, but you can also create new content as if they were made by you. Your history is written by them.

Servers do too much: They convinced us we don't have enough processing power and moved all the logic from our applications into servers. Even though a phone has an equivalent processing power than a single server today, we believe we must use complicated server architectures to achieve anything in the web. Phones are the cloud.

Everything is a rental: You don't own your domain name. It's a rental. Your server is a rental. Your digital certificate is a rental. You don't own anything. Your digital identity is a rental.

Data Silos force you to stay: Moving is too hard. They profit on making things just difficult enough to keep your around. After all, it's just 9.99 a month.

Enter the Verifiable Web

Own your keys, own your content. No one can write for you. No one can change what you write.

Sign everything you send. Every little like, every little key press. If it wasn't signed, it didn't happen.

Verify everything you receive. Trust the signer, not the servers in between.

You decide how data gets to you and where it stays. Your digital history is assembled by you.

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