I love the #Fediverse but I'm dreaming of something truly decentralized using public keys for identifiers and something similar to the #NASA delay-tolerant network for distribution. No email addresses ever used to identify someone - that's an old system we need to move past.
The beauty of this would be to have key-signing in person so you could show on your feed "I've met this person, they're real, I know them and here's their pubkey to follow -- they aren't AI" and through the six-degrees-of-separation thing we can all follow REAL people and what they engage with. No AI Bots. If there are bots you wanna follow, sure, follow those keys too - but they aren't people and can't show up at key-signing parties and post pictures with us so that's different.
Also, any email service is a public thing that someone might find your leaked password for, etc.
I want my identity backed by a secret key that lives only on my computer -- and part of a wallet of keys that includes ones that I keep offline entirely and only use if the current key does get compromised and yoinked off of said computer.
And IDEALLY I want to have a little USB thingy that has the key and can't be read by my computer - I wanna just be able to send it text and read back the signature for it and never ever have to risk that secret key being stolen thanks to a vibe-coded update to my Linux distro or Python libraries or something sometime in the future.
We have the basic tools to do all that - it's simple off the shelf stuff we could actually do with no real new work needed - just use keypairs (or rather sets of pairs as above, not just a single all-or-nothing loss point) and identify ourselves by them. And then meet and do key-signing and know and tell the network that this person is real.
Anyone? Can we start doing that someday soon before AI slop and AI hacks of email services bring this lovely place we have down? #pubkey #p2p #identity #keysigning #fediverse #email #security #aislop #makestuff