ONE-OF-US.NET
A network of the people, by the people, for the people.
Retis, ergo sum. (I network, therefore I am)
A network of the people, by the people, for the people.
Retis, ergo sum. (I network, therefore I am)
If you believe that knowing who's who is important, who should be the authority? Google? Elon? The Gov't? Or us.
You reading this now are either one of us or one of them.
Farmers' market today, hmm... They don't like me over there..
Wait! Maybe I'll go using an incognito browser. That way I can be totally annoying, and they won't know it's me. I could go again next week, and they won't even know it's the same dude.
If everyone went using incognito windows, no one would know who's who or who's even a person.
SicK!
Tech advances have made it possible for us to own and manage our own identities without relying on any authority or service. By cryptographically vouching for each other, we could know who's who on any service.
It works.
ChatGPT can't steal your Bitcoin.
Vouch directly for one another.
Simple: "one of us".
Your cryptographic public key is your identity.
Any service can use this now, right away
Catching up on the latest, scrolling...
ad, promoted content, pseudonymous fakenews meme repost, ad, a trillion likes - wow!, promoted content, I am influenced!, no clue about this one, pseudonymous fakenews meme repost
Shocking! I better repost this one, myself (using my own pseudonymous account;).
Consider Netscape 1.0 and the early WWW. It was open, decentralized,
distributed, and heterogeneous, and it evolved specifically for
those qualities - open for competition, playing no favorites.
One company's server serves another's data which can be viewed
by you using browsers from yet another variety of companies, and
none of them are locked in. Yeah, okay, what else is new?
Having us (people) own our identities and allowing us to use them at any service enhances all of those qualities. It diminishes silo-owned accounts and their leverage over us and their competitors. It increases our freedom and can unleash new possibilities.
To be clear: this isn't "yet another.." account type, incompatible messenger, or aspiring silo... It's the opposite - it connects the incompatible. We don't want to take your account, we want to give you your identity.
Interoperable, non-proprietary, a paradigm
Interoperable, non-proprietary, standard cryptographic keys in formats.
The whole thing is pure paradigm (not a protocol like HTTP, for
example).
We distribute crypto keys among ourselves, use them to sign
and publish statements regarding who possesses which key, and then
let the Interwebs sort it out.
Content anywhere can play nice with other content.
"Liberated Trust"
Signed content can exist, be stored, or be served from anywhere (not from an "authority") and be combined meaningfully with other signed content from other sources, possibly referencing some of the same people.
The Internet liberated lies and pornography.
Crypto on the web can liberate trust. Let's
litter the Interweb with signed, authentic content, instead.
"First Amendment 2.0"
Distributing your public key provides you an ability, not a
requirement, to voice yourself authentically.
"First Amendment 2.0"
(Anonymity on the Interwebs
isn't going away anytime soon ;)
Why opt-in? Are you moved by an anonymous like?
The phone app only signs and publishes.
The phone app only signs and publishes individual contributions
but doesn't compute anything.
The Nerdster has a rudimentary
implementation of computing your or my network and aggregating
subject ratings from our Points of View to demonstrate a starting
point.
Other services are expected and invited to do a better job, to compete for our attention and trust, to leverage the existing content out there and create more, but better.
Any improvements could be fragmented further with competing services playing off each other's improvements. Can't do that with our Facebook, X, or Insta content, which is locked in silos.
Cop Cam Taze of the Day Daily Edition, AI clacker generated YouTube comments...
Kick back, relax, and get radicalized..
Ha ha.. Nice one! Yup, she was asking for it..
But wait.. What's this? Compassion? Empathy? .. Seems human
generated.
Honestly, there should literally be a way to filter those out, right?
How might owning singular identities online change how we feel,
relate, and behave online? Like the rest of us, I'm a singular and
complex being. You may like my music taste but not my politics,
might admire my professional skills but not my humor. Would you be
more open to listening to folks about matters where you disagree if
you recognized that they were, after all, "one of us", that they're
complex and that you agree and appreciate them in other aspects?
What about if they were six degrees removed (but through IRL
human connections)?
Out: Central censorship, powerful silos, algorithmic manipulation,
low attention span, psychotic derangement, max vitriol.
In: Connection, compassion, understanding, growth, peace,
prosperity, joy,
(nerd save us ;)
Reputation, respect, community, truth.
Authenticity, reputation, respect, community, truth, all good.
Identity revisited.
I am not my phone, browsing history,
purchases, prescriptions...
I am not my phone number, my email address, my Facebook account,
my browsing history, my purchases, my prescription medications..
I'm the guy you met on that river trip, or the one you roomed with
in college, or your friend's neighbor...
I am who your network says I am. Everywhere
We're not trying to build it - just writing it down authentically
and heterogeneously, making it accessible and useful across all
services.
People not accounts
"Democracy 2.0"
Humanity has typically relied on hierarchies and central institutions to organize, with concentrated power, corruption, and systemic abuse often following. Tech that gives individuals verifiable ownership of their voice can enable decentralized organization.
In case you're disrespected by folks you don't respect, no
worries; your network probably doesn't respect them either and
isn't interested in their view. If they're in your networks, block
'em out, clean it up; you'll be doing yourself and those who
respect your judgement a service.
Now, in case you're
disrespected by folks you do respect, then that might be on you.
Shape up.
Killer apps ...
Ouch! That's in poor taste, and I'll call it out - post censored,
individual blocked for news context.
Oh, that dude.. Competent trip leader, loves dogs, known him since
Idaho, (talks too much), impeccable hygiene.. He'd keep it clean
for sure and would be my honor to follow.
Follow me to leverage all that.
Because you believe.
In case you do, grow the network. We build it and *let* them
use it.
They want this themselves.
Promote, shape, entirely rebrand; nothing is off the table.