People need an online identity that outlives the platforms hosting it, which is why it should live on a domain they control rather than as a handle on somebody else's site.

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• A person who controls their own infrastructure and signing keys can meaningfully own their digital identity. SKSteve Klabnik14 Jul 2026
• What people care about in their own identity is continuity, not similarity -- they accept enormous drift so long as the thread is unbroken. MHMax Hodak20 Aug 2026
• Websites outside the big platforms have become hard to find at all, and that is a large part of why they can no longer sustain themselves. MWMolly White7 Oct 2024
• Whether the open web survives will be decided by what ordinary people collectively do, not by the companies that profit from it. MWMolly White7 Oct 2024
• Real-name policies on social platforms exist mainly to make users legible for advertising and government surveillance, not user safety. PHPhil Hagelberg22 Nov 2022

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