Comment by elzbardico

The problem I see with those initiatives is that there are 8 billions of us, and for most us, there are uncountable persons with the same name.

And do we really want another public identity anchor given the increasingly signs of a rise on government control and authoritarism?

What I dream of is an identity schema where your identity is context based, your friends can easily locate your game server, the IRS knows the stuff it legally can know about you, but it couldn't easily trace you as a taxpayer to you journalist or political blogger, even if you had a patreon or a substack and received money from supporters, the IRS can tax that money, but it can't link it to your anarchist blog.

Yeah, a pipe dream, I know. But, can we really keep on living on this world without dreaming a bit?