Re: [GNU/consensus] Who are the new kids on the block?

[Melvin Carvalho]

On 12 March 2013 18:45, Nick Jennings <address@hidden> wrote:

On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 10:31 AM, Melvin Carvalho
<address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Favourite project at the moment:
>
> https://my-profile.eu/
>
> Main reasons: is that it has excellent use of URLs, is decentralized,
> respects privacy, and scales to billions.

Pardon my ignorance, but:

How is it decentralized and how does it scale? Once you create a
profile there, it's dependant on that site:

https://my-profile.eu/people/<username> /card#me

Thanks for bringing this up.  This is exactly what I mean by excellent use of URLs. 

Although you CAN use that URL to login to the site, I can also login with any URL that displays my public key.

In my case I login via my homepage: http://melvincarvalho.com/

In the case of Tim Berners-Lee he can (and does) login with http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/card#i

You can login with your freedombox etc.

This is essentially known as the "opacity" property of the URL.  ie that characters in the variable string are independent of that variable's value.

Get URLs right, and federation drops out almost for free.  If you can show me another system this well designed separation of concerns, I'd be very happy to use it!
 

Since there is no information on the site, it's hard to asses any of
those claims