@sun Also did you mean open in the sense of open-standard or open in the sense of "everyone can join, yes even eris.berkeley.edu"? (And so the opposite of things like affinity-based groups or even just avoiding people you don't want to deal with, which to me is rather fundamental for well-being)
@sun :shrug:
There's been several equivalents of such protocols, it's more that people often love to ignore things like Zooko's triangle (Human-meaningful vs. Secure vs. Decentralised authorities), purposefully or not.
And designing for federation is harder, specially if you want to get competitive/attractive, so you get a lot of garbage protocols.
But saying it's inhuman is quite false, like the phone network (somewhat decentralised, and hierarchical rather than federated but I'd say it's close enough) uses obscure numbers and is still a security disaster, but there's nearly no competition for it that isn't significantly more niche, so everyone still uses it on a quite regular basis.
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