#LoqiThe Decentralized Identifier Working Group has published Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) v1.0 as a W3C Recommendation.
This document defines Decentralized identifiers (DIDs), a new type of identifier that enables verifiable, decentralized digital id...
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#[fluffy]Namecheap has started pushing “handshake domains” which are the usual blockchain grift in the guise of “decentralization” but with nothing to make it usefully decentralized (or really, useful at all).
#[fluffy]they’re pushing it from the namecheap dashboard. Saw it this morning when I logged on to fix some domain contact info.
#[fluffy]Historically, namecheap soft-launches stuff like that before doing the email blast, so presumably that’s coming soon.
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#[fluffy]and of course https://handshake.org/faq/ has the usual pretzel logic explaining why it’s okay for the environment that it’s proof-of-work
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#[schmarty]the entire namecheap/HNS setup feels like an oxymoron given that namecheap will let you rent a subdomain of one of their own HNS domains? so like you don't even get any of the ownership benefits?
#[fluffy]I suspect they’re trying to recoup their investment before the bottom falls out on crypto entirely.
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#petermolnarit could be worse, like these people: https://peername.com/ "Looking for a crypto domain?" and then sell .onion vanity domains along with the others.
#LoqiA personal domain is a domain name that you personally own, control, and use to represent yourself on the internet https://indieweb.org/domain_name
#[tantek]should we document a warning there ^ about this?
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#yapkaCan someone point me to a tutorial getting webmentions to work from Wordpress to Mastodon? I have the plugin installed. Not sure what I have to do from there to get my posts published over on masto?