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Firefox should bundle something like metamask in the browser. Not only you will have a trustless identification mechanism for multiple identities, but users will also use it for micropayments.

I think a lot of the privacy and mob mentality issues stem from the fact that current systems don't support multiple disconnected, pseudonymous identities, which we had ~15 years ago. We should make it easy for laypeople to have that again.

I don't know if decentralizing the web is worth the effort since it's less efficient. We need however to steal back identity from those identity barons.



Firefox tried decentralised identity via the Persona protocol. It failed to gain market traction and Mozilla canned the project.

Email is already the decentralised identity protocol.


i think it isn't and that s why i think we need Persona, but without the email-account requirement. Plus mozilla canned the project too early and without ever really trying to push for it, as if they didnt want adoption.

I think such a system is needed, we need to teach people that they are in control of their identity and that it is independent of facebook. Kind of like how mobile apps do it with numbers.


> multiple disconnected, pseudonymous identities

Oh I’m with you.




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