1 sat \ 4 replies \ @k00b 25 Jan 2022 \ on: Daily discussion thread
Had a convo with @erickuhn19 today about DIDs and it made me more bullish on them than I was prior. Then had a convo with @supertestnet where he was bearish. I'm way more curious about using them now in the context of a decentralized SN.
what capacity would you use DIDs in? which implementation of them? have a link?
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We would use whichever standard we thought best.
Warning: DIDs in wide scale use, at least the way I understand them, are early and my understanding is fetal.
It would be the method users would authenticate themselves with and potentially store any data associated with their identity in some supporting wallet. Base case though is just an auth method.
afaict they are an identity/data layer with an associated protocol that's agnostic to the wallet storing the id/data and the application retrieving the id/data.
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do slashtags use dids? I think slashtags are a cool idea but I'm a bit bearish that anyone will want to implement them. I talked with the lnurl folks about bringing my favorite slashtags feature into lnurl, which is that a server where you've authenticated your device can store a message for your public key, and your device can notify you if it sees a message for your public key on that server. That's a cool feature and the lnurl folks seem to think so too, so that might come to lnurl. That kind of two-way communication between a client and a server could lead to hosting data about yourself on your device and providing it to servers in a user-controlled way. I like that idea.
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Yeah, slashtags are a DID system afaik.
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