#iiw I guess my standard bit at conferences is to talk about how HCI and UXD and the model have to be designed together, not at different times or by different people. Maybe I should lean into that.
Gave an improptu summary of the UBOS project and architecture and key differences at #IIW today in a session on Personal Data Stores. Others talked about #solid, #tbd/decentralized web nodes and more.
An entrepreneur -- who doesn't yet want to be publicly identified -- ran a session here at #IIW why he's pivoting his company out of the #SSI Self-sovereign Identity / #VC Verifiable Credential space after years of trying to make a business there.
It was extremely interesting and I hope he will publish his lessons learned both for the #identity community and any new technology market really that has similar challenges.
P.S. Much resonated with my reasons why I never got deep into SSI myself.
What about an #IIW session next week where we remind each other what we wanted the #socialweb to be ≈15 years ago before the big platforms took over and it all became non-viable since?
Which parts of the vision are again relevant and can we make them happen this time around now that we have a resurgence of the #fediverse?
Saw a demo of the #openid interop #test suite this week at internet #identity workshop #iiw. Very impressive! We need that kind of thing for the #fediverse.
Imagine in a few years being able to say to chatgpt8:
Please promote my product on the fediverse by registering 100,000 accounts over the course of 12 weeks on at least 500 different instances, weighted by instance size. These accounts should be conversational and engaging with other members and should not be detectable as bots. 10% of of these bots should express skepticism in my product, and the remaining bots should engage them in a public discourse to correct their misunderstanding. Monitor the sentiment of people discussing my product and develop an optimal strategy to maximize that sentiment. “
I'm increasingly getting the feeling that one of these days I need to reactivate LID -- Light-Weight Digital Identity -- my entry into #identity and #iiw created more or less by accident in 2004. Then folded into the larger #OpenID movement. Some of its more interesting features were adopted by other identity protocols over time, but some others are still unique and would be very useful now that the decentralized, user-owned, social web is waking back up.