Comment by laserbeam

Nothing in this article requires or benefits from a blockchain. Social recovery of your account is a feature on Facebook and has been for years... There's nothing novel or particularly interesting here.

The only thing blockchain would add is a gas fee whenever I would log in somewhere, and would keep the same UX problems I'd have with login anywhere else.

Keep in mind the most successful project EVER in managing identity was let's encrypt. A centralized non-profit that got the internet to use https everywhere by signing ssl certificates and vouching for everyone's server for free, and as far as I can tell without collecting any personal data about anyone. Web3 is going to solve "this" (whatever this is)... Riiight.