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First Steps of the PLC Organization – Independent Public Ledger of Credentials

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ACCount39 · 1790627020 · focus · HN ↗
This might be one of the closest things I've seen to actually being able to own your account - instead of having it not just owned by a second party in every way that matters, but also beholden to a third party via an e-mail or a phone number you can't possibly own in any meaningful way.
That's pretty important in a world where the likes of Google can and will just reject your attempt to log in with a valid password on the grounds of "we don't like you", and force you to "confirm" yourself using a phone number that's defunct since 2009.
The issue is, as often is the case, adoption.
1. rkagerer · 1790655308 · focus · HN ↗
  You can still own an email. Some people out there have their own domain and successfully self-host, despite the challenges.
  If you're interested in this but uncomfortable exposing your mailserver to the world, there are proxies that can help (eg. SpamHero) and which could theoretically be swapped out to a competing service if needed while still retaining ownership and control of your domain / address / message history.

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