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Decentralized Web

Its 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.

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

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:

Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1_oaVcx2IEbUEr9I-23Fd1e9ZMkIYtxpJe76zYq1oVZE/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 Daniels 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 cant 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, 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.

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 doesnt seem to want, considering SSBs 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 SSBs design.

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.

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

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.

Ubikom is free, open-source email framework based on the concept of Self-Sovereign Identity. You own your identity (which, in this case, means your private key), and all the outgoing and incoming messages are encrypted and signed by default.