Aaron Parecki

Glitch isn't a "no code" tool, so you don't have to be limited to just the colors or links that are chosen for you. Want your link page to embed a video? Want #indieweb features on your page? Have an alternate payment system you like? You can make what you want to see.

God I hate it when people ask questions without watching the whole video first. How about a youtube thing that says, when commenting, “you appear to be asking a question yet you’ve only watched 29% of the video. Do you think you should finish watching before posting?”

Crypto's biggest trick has been creating centralized systems run by small cabals of early winners that run on distributed systems, and telling people that "distributed" and "decentralized" are the same.

We work hard to make OAuth even better. If you want to know what OAuth is and why it matters so much for security listen to this talk by @aaronpk https://twitter.com/btconf/status/1460186119891570690

He has been working on OpenID for years now and he is still not sure what it really is.

Last week @aaronpk gave a talk titled “Why Do We Really Need OAuth Anyway?”. The video of this talk is available on YouTube and Vimeo now. Find links in our event’s archive: https://beyondtellerrand.com/events/dusseldorf-2021/speakers/aaron-parecki

So do we just pretend like the #indieweb /#openweb movement never existed? Or is that a buzzkill?

that's what the real web 3.0 was supposed to be about, some 10+ years ago — folks figuring out how to replicate the experience of silos, but across lots of different personal sites. i guess we never quite got it to work.

meanwhile the blockchain answer is "what if one big silo"

silos took over because they're massively convenient in a lot of ways. the web3 folks don't seem to understand that (even as they cluster around convenient silos like opensea) and don't have answers to any of the compelling reasons people use silos in the first place

their rugged individualism just makes them unable to see any of our current problems as systemic, and so their solution is to just recreate basically the same structures with different people in charge

so i have absolutely no idea how this is meant to lead us to anything other than: facebook and twitter, except now all the posts are hosted by someone else, so facebook and twitter save money. also you can't delete posts because they're on the blockchain, idk