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Decentralized Web

• Signing HTTP Messages Justin Richer

It’s time to start implementing it and testing it out with applications of all stripes, and I invite all of you to join me in doing just that.

• Simon Wilson writes about using IndieAuth with Datasette

  IndieAuth is a spiritual successor to OpenID, developed and maintained by the IndieWeb community and based on OAuth 2. This weekend I attended IndieWebCamp East Coast and was inspired to try my hand at an imPplementation. datasette-indieauth is the result, a new plugin which enables IndieAuth logins to a Datasette instance.

• Social.Network, a decentralized alternative to traditional social media that gives its users ownership of their identity and digital assets, to launch first phase of its protocol on April 22nd

  interested users will be able to create a self-sovereign identity on the platform by following the steps on the social.network landing page (h/t @SelfSovID

• How to Sign Users In with IndieAuth Aaron Parecki

  IndieAuth is an extension of OAuth 2.0 that enables an individual website like someone's WordPress, Gitea or OwnCast instance to become its own identity provider. This means you can use your own website to sign in to other websites that support IndieAuth.

• The latest in the DWeb: Jolocom’s breakthrough

At the last DWeb Meetup, we were invited to share our role in the German Government’s 60M Euro SDI (Secure Digital Identities) innovation project to bring “Self-Sovereign Identity” to German and EU citizens.

• Credentials and HTTP-Sig authentication for Solid Henry Story

  Here is an extended version of the HTTP-Signature document I put together today, bringing in ideas that have emerged thinking about this over the past 3 months

• IndieAuth Spec Updates 2020 by Aaron Parecki

  This year, the IndieWeb community has been making progress on iterating and evolving the IndieAuth protocol. IndieAuth is an extension of OAuth 2.0 that enables it to work with personal websites and in a decentralized environment.

• Secure Scuttlebutt Intro by Charles E. Lehner

directed participants to website https://scuttlebutt.nz/ and to the download page https://scuttlebutt.nz/get-started/

Participants downloaded an SSB app: Patchwork and/or Manyverse.

Convener introduced the concepts of SSB Rooms and Pubs, and proposed using Rooms for onboarding, referring to a public list of SSB rooms:

• https://github.com/ssbc/ssb-server/wiki/%23ssbrooms

• https://ssbc.github.io/scuttlebutt-protocol-guide/

• Kepler: Permissioned Replicated Storage for Decentralized Applications by Charles Cunningham, Wayne Chang

Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1_oaVcx2IEbUEr9I-23Fd1e9ZMkIYtxpJe76zYq1oVZE/edit?usp=sharing

• Decentralized publication, micro-publication and moderation-- what the real pitfalls would be. by Kim Duffy, Juan Caballero

• https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1RMozl86wihBw8_rJvC97tUUjYVpTHk6aF8QOs_ng6l0/edit?usp=sharing

Set-up Presentation:

• Silos and echo chambers?
• Countermeasures?
• Pink Checkmark system? Verify all accounts or continue 2-class system
• Can we still make money?
• Moderation
• Clients and API openness - on what axes will they compete? Can they compete on algos? Community curation?
• How important is authenticity? Each tweet signed?
• Editable cheeps?
• Delete cheeps?
• Mike Jones: Listening to Daniel’s ION presentation, I asked from the POV of a naïve person, what are these ION DIDs good for in the first place; his answer was
• Daniel wants identities that Twitter can’t take away from Donald Trump
• Child pornographers would also then be sovereign over their identifiers
• Kim: People select their own echo chambers
• Juan: Echo chamber / child porn dynamics have a lot in common (HBO Documentary “into the storm”)
• Erica: Social media as a way to advertise, finding markets. Want to market to people who are interested
• Small business, organic marketing, micro-commerce
• Bullying, social problems, child protection

• [...]

• Secure Scuttlebutt Outro

Secure Scuttlebutt, Decentralized Identifiers, Key Management

Dmitri expressed interest in SSB and reported using but then having lost their key (when switching/resetting devices?). Expressed Frustration (with the key recovery process). Have question, how could SSB use DIDs?

Charles responded that there is a draft PR on DID Spec Registries adding a SSB DID method a few days ago.

• https://github.com/w3c/did-spec-registries/pull/291

Dmitri Z. asked about other ways other than as a DID method.

Charles said SSB could be extended to support DIDs, but this would be a breaking change, which the community doesn’t seem to want, considering SSB’s message signing format as “set in stone”.

There could be other ways, such as making a new system that uses DIDs but inherits some of SSB’s design.

• Kizuna, a private messenger app: for one-on-one or group conversations. Holochain

empowers people to message each other completely privately, without the involvement of a central server. The app is open-source and is being developed by a non-profit group called the Holochain Institute of Japan.

• The DWeb Is An Ensemble Piece - Holochain Blog Holochain

I witness demos of Social Sensemaker and We, working examples of Holochain apps that help groups create healthy online social spaces to work and play in

• How Ethereal Engine is Unleashing the Power of the Immersive Web Ethereal Engine

In keeping with the DWeb Camp theme, we also demonstrated how decentralized identifiers, identity web wallets, and verified credentials can be powerfully leveraged in Ethereal Engine to enable an entirely new paradigm of frictionless portable identity that champions user privacy and dignity.