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This is a big deal:
The W3C, founded in 1994 by web inventor Tim Berners-Lee, has quit X and declared the fediverse to be their primary social media channel. Follow them at: @w3c
The future of the open web is .. the open web.
@eloquence why is it?
W3C does not stand for an open web. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encrypted_Media_Extensions
@eloquence ever tried participating in the W3C standardization process? Be rich or go home!
@fluepke @eloquence There are certainly grounds to critique the W3C, but we are writing these messages using ActivityPub, a W3C standard that has definitely advanced the open web and manifestly is not dominated by “rich” interests.
@LiberalArtist @eloquence W3C also made Decentralized Identifiers (self-sovereign identity blockchain bullshit) a "web standard" that the European Union will likely force upon us with the EUDI-Wallet.
In Germany, @Lilith and I caused the #IDWallet to fail after some basic IT security research.
This technology will discriminate minorities, enforce borders on the internet and be used for mining PII.
It is the opposite of an open web.
@fluepke @LiberalArtist @eloquence @Lilith I wish, Mastodon used DID instead of a location-based identity with vendor lock-in.
@functionalscript use your DID how and where you wish, but do not implement state issued identities with it. There’s better technology for that, which prevents over-identification and all the other problems to it.
@fluepke I don't argue with that. A state is centralized, so it doesn't require DIDs. But I wouldn't blame W3C for having DID standards. IMHO, DIDs are long overdue in the industry. If we had DID for twitter accounts, we wouldn't need to lose all our data and contacts. Data and identities shouldn't belong to social network providers and servers.