Mike Macgirvin (dev) on Nostr: What we discovered is that the fediverse is an enabler for some quite radical unique ...

What we discovered is that the fediverse is an enabler for some quite radical unique opportunities that never existed before. When you add federated single sign-on to the mix, the entire decentralised space becomes one "user table" with self-sovereign identities. Shops can selectively offer promotions to their customers. You can share private media of your kids with your mom. And every site has control at the instance level over what they share with anybody in the federated space. And none of this is controlled by Microsoft or Google or Facebook or needs to pass through their servers. You don't need an account on my server. You only need an account on your server. I can share protected code snippets with you from my development repository, knowing nothing more than your fediverse handle. I've got a trivial python script that turns cooperating fediverse cloud storage instances into a single file system (sort of like the Andrew File System of the 90s). I've been trying to tell people that this represents an enabler for killer apps that change the entire web forever (in a good way), but I'm just a developer on a fediverse repository that nobody has ever heard of -  so my words mean nothing. As an identity person, I'm thinking/hoping maybe you'll be able to see the bigger picture because I've died on this hill so many times I've simply given up.