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  • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    7 months ago

    key signing and web of trust is pretty cool but i’m somewhat opposed to it on a fundamental level. Let me decentralize my shit and mind my own business if you feel what i mean.

    Anything that’s relatively centralized identity wise is not something i’m a huge fan of right off the hop.

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      7 months ago

      Let me decentralize my shit…

      Isn’t that why it’s a web of trust, and not a center of trust? I think you might be confusing that with public key infrastructure.

      Also, you can’t decentralize your shit without a second party. That’s kind of the point.

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        7 months ago

        Isn’t that why it’s a web of trust, and not a center of trust?

        yes, but it’s still a trust, i don’t consider that to be fully decentralized. It serves a purpose don’t get me wrong, but i won’t be signing my online profiles using WoT keys anytime soon.

        The web makes it decentralized, which is accurate, though i tend to use decentralize way more aggressively on a level local to me. I suppose it’s probably more dis-integrated, than anything. But whatever.