Aaron Parecki

The OAuth 2.0 spec has become very popular. Boring companies like banks and insurance companies are using it too.

Many websites use the OAuth 2.0 standard to protect their information, and many other websites use it for other things.

so my wife and i have two cats, and because the cats are prolific content creators, two cat boxes. it just occurred to me that the cats' box selection habits very elegantly model a common problem in most federated social media platforms: load balancing

🤡 Hey, can I copy your homework?

▽ Yeah, just change it up a bit so it’s not obvious you copied.

🤡 Bet.

The last decade of application design will be known to future designers as “the flat design catastrophe”

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

i have made good-faith attempts to understand what they are so excited about but it always boils down to "what if, instead of trusting a rich company with all your information... you trusted a group of rich anonymous strangers?"

it is completely wild to me how many people on here are making 100% confident statements about what is made possible by web3, a thing that does not seem to actually exist

and right at the same time as facebook releases an AMV about "the metaverse" and pretends it's a product

Right, but Web 2.0 (although the term was a bit of a joke to developers) was describing technologies solving actual problems. Web3 is vague hype.

Folks like https://indieweb.org/ share some of the web3 goals, but without the speculative crypto bro stuff.

Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale

Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus