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@Moon what is this i hate it2021-1624382768.png
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@Moon > wouldn't it be great if your single account for the internet also had an avatar & other profile info?no. no it would not
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@shmibs @Moon What about signing in with 10grans?
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@forgottenthirst @Moon maybe a'm wrong, but doesn't this also manage to be "whoops, i accidentally my login credentials to every single thing all at once forever"?
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@shmibs @Moon Single sign-on serves nothing but abject laziness and surveillance goals
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@forgottenthirst @Moon and single global namespace for usernames means there's never any turnover, like there is naturally now with sites and people dying sometimespark a spot and it's taken forever
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@shmibs @Moon Well, that too
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@shmibs @forgottenthirst same as anything else, just make another account with a new key.
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@Moon @forgottenthirst with anything else i do password reset
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@D-Droid @Moon @shmibs Behind the scenes, the wheels of progress are turning...
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@moth_ball @shmibs @Moon has anyone made watamelon coin yet?
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@lain @forgottenthirst @Moon well do that with password manager too, but like if somehow both (10 year old) computers failed at once could still do password reset to get back into anything
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@shmibs @Moon @forgottenthirst you backup your key, that's how
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@lain @Moon @forgottenthirst (waiting for nephlings to become 10 year old so can run around with them at the park and play game,s ah gosh...
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@moth @Moon using ssh keys feels nicer, easy to generate and not tied to some global database thing
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@shmibs it's just public key authentication. Something we've been trying to get for a long time but only ethereum gave people a reason to install a tool for it.
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@Moon @shmibs Well, SSH before this.
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@shmibs @moth there's no global database with ethereum. it's basically the same thing except there's a stronger expectation that key->person is 1:1
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@Moon @moth the username thing isn't a global database?
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@moth @Moon keyserv stuff seems messy, but for keys to do login wouldn't need that, would you?like forget ssh and just replace "password" with "key". "signin with keygen", your local thing generates a key for that account on signup, so user doesn't have to remember passwords and server-side all that changes is better-than-password security
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@shmibs @Moon keyservers are a whole can of worms that I am only starting to understand, so if someone solved that in a distributed way I would be interested, but I hear you.
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@Moon @moth that's the article i'm talking about; guy who wrote it was all "and we already have global username and avatar and other info all set up for the web3 experience and"
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@shmibs @moth there may be some shitty service that provides a common username and avatar based on your key that I don't know about, but there was an article a while back that was like "ethereum solved the single sign on problem" and it basically was just private and public key used to make a user in whatever sites' database
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@Moon @moth well, just key-based login doesn't sound that bad, though have no idea why it has to have anything to do with ethereum
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@shmibs @moth I never read the article, I just implemented key-based login last year for my (still unreleased) nft store and thought this is what he was talking about because like a dozen other sites do it now.
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@Moon @moth or use the same key for everywhere, rather than make a new one for every service