Email addresses suck. All these "identities" that we use are owned by other people and are rented or "given" to us for use. Every single one! Email address, phone number, all social media handles, even IP address, even government identifiers. None of them are owned by you.
As far as I can tell, the only way to have an actually good identifier is for a user to generate a public/private keypair.
Yes, there are challenges with account recovery but we have tools for that like multisig and and n of m schemes and a bunch of other stuff I don't know about.
Email is digital post cards handed off between two dozen untrusted couriers. Why on earth are we overloading this tool for identity, notifications, conversations, subscriptions, etc?
As far as I can tell, the only way to have an actually good identifier is for a user to generate a public/private keypair.
Yes, there are challenges with account recovery but we have tools for that like multisig and and n of m schemes and a bunch of other stuff I don't know about.
Email is digital post cards handed off between two dozen untrusted couriers. Why on earth are we overloading this tool for identity, notifications, conversations, subscriptions, etc?