ONE-OF-US.NET
A network of the people, by the people, for the people.
All your likes are belong to us.
retis, ergo sum.
Open source: https://github.com/YotamAviv/oneofus
Open data: (My portable, signed statements: https://export.one-of-us.net/?token=2c3142d16cac3c5aeb6d7d40a4ca6beb7bd92431)
A new paradigm: an open and decentralized identity network owned and run by us (not by any central organization, company, or authority). Let's get on the same page, across all services and platforms.
Tech advances (open source public key cryptography, powerful devices, convenient app stores, QR scanning) have made it possible for us to own and use our own keys and authenticate ourselves without relying on any authority.
By endorsing each other's identities directly and securely, we can know who we are anywhere (on any service).
If you believe having decentralized, heterogenous network like this, who would you want to have build it (and own it)? Google? Elon? The Gov't? Or us.
The paradigm demonstrated by these 2 apps can be a demo. Or it could be how this starts.
You reading this now are either one of us or one of them.
No center, no hierarchy, no payola, no editorial board, no temptation or opportunity for corruption or bias (other than your own)
You trust, you block, others do, too. That's the network.
From each of our individual perspectives, we're its center.
(Try out the embedded Nerdster demo below.)
We can't decide to use our data inside Netflix, or Ebay, or Facebook differently; their algorithms are theirs, are not transparent, and are not open for competition and evolution.
But with portable, signed data, anyone at any time can.
Much like how today's Internet grew from Netscape 1.0 specifically because HTTP accommodates heterogeneous tech, we do hope to, too.
No account with any service. You own your cryptographic key and use it to sign your statements.
Services validate your signature to trust your statements.
Signed statements are portable. Your Facebook likes can only be trusted when served from facebook.com, but when we each sign our metadata with our own keys, any other person, company, or thing can leverage them however they choose, and their authenticity can still be verified.
Trust cryptography and open source nerds instead of corporations, organizations, monopolies, and silos.
More distributed and unanchored means more robust, resiliant, and harder to crush or supress.
You appreciate the profound significance of distributing public/private crypto key pairs to us all so that we each have a recognized voice across all services.
- Follow/block the same, actual people on comments sections in any paper, forum, ...
- Same human identities and reputations across Craigslist, Yelp/Maps, Airbnb/VRBO, NYT/WSJ, the 4 twitters, ...
Atm, the Nerd'ster demo is the only app that uses the one-of-us.net network. There is no movement; help start one.
Embed the Nerd'ster and share the best of your network's favorites.
content's lame
everyone's nerd
Simple and complete
App store links at top
Creates and stores your public/private crypto keys
Cryptographically sign and publish your statements
Sign into services using delegate keys you authorize
A demo / proof of concept / reference implementation of a service that leverages and contributes to this paradigm's "liberated trust".
Also embedded at bottom of this page
Detailed intro video
Or just do this:
Install the phone app (links at top of page)
Trust your friend (whoever forwarded this to you, click the QR button on bottom right to scan his public key)
Have your friend trust you (have him scan your phone app or email him your public key (menu, "/etc", "Share my public key").
Access the Nerd'ster at https://nerdster.web.app/
Sign in using your phone app ("Sign in" on Nerdster, same QR button on phone app).
Submit something, rate, comment, etc... (Click "+" to submit, left icon of any content row to rate, comment, dis, censor, relate, etc...)
The Simpsons bot farm demo below loads up with Lisa at the center. Note how the content changes as you change Center, Follow , or Settings (censorship, network degrees or number of paths).
