@jonah, I’m quite interested in this as currently the way people do this are to use centralized systems like Facebook, X, Instagram and LinkedIn to set up identity. I think this type of system will become more valuable as we move closer to much of the internet containing a bunch of bot info (a point I also forgot to touch on above but less related to privacy I guess).
I’ve also seen Freenet’s GhostKey as another solution. Freenet and its implementation (now called Hyphanet) also seem to be a really cool way to set up a dark web.
I get a bit mixed up though as this starts to overlay a bit with the goals of like Etherium, though etherium is much more public vs Freenet seems more darkweb and doesn’t use blockchain but rather just sharing storage and compute with other peers using the same e2e protocol. This can be used to share files and build applications together, you can also run applications on other nodes without those nodes having access to anything you are running.
Anyways, I think the Futo guys are also making a network economy and identiy app, and web3 has no shortage of this type of networks like holochain and the well known Etherium.
Would love to learn with others around this tech as I think it has potential but don’t want another web3 hype storm to make everyone go broke or lose all their earnings due to stolen wallets.