👽 Paul Webb
I've been thinking about the problems of the current popular social networks. A lot. They have too much power IMO and some of them do sketchy things at the expense of their users, like sell their data to the highest bidder.
👽 Paul Webb
That's probably THE major, if not only, hurdle. The onboarding process is key. For Socii, I don't want to deal with password management either. I've been using passwordless.net for my current SaaS app and I absolutely love it. None of my future SaaS products will utilize passwords again and I believe they are a hurdle as well. It just encourages poor decisions, especially since so many services want our attention. Anyhoo, this was just a brain dump, there needs to be a LOT more thought put into this. I just thought of a network that does onboarding quite well: Slack. They also have a passwordless login (kinda).
Mark Dain
As a power user I like password managers but I can see how passwordless.net would be great for the average user. For a federated network to function you'd likely need to use a private key to prove who the user is; the issue then is getting phones to work or if the user buys a new computer. As far as I know there's almost no way to do this nicely. I can imagine scanning a QR code to get the key on the phone but phone -> computer could be harder.