Digital Identity

What will it take for voting with DIDs to become mainstream?

What will it take for voting with DIDs to become mainstream?

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honestly, what will it take for DIDs to find any usage at all?

i'd rather kill the radio and listen to the rain hit

What do you mean? Are you implying there’s no utility or use cases for DIDs?

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sure there are. tons. in fact, i think DIDs are really awesome.

just tell me who's actually using them today.

oh, i see that you're counting ENS names and other forms of portable identity as DIDs instead of the W3C DID spec, which ENS does not adhere to.

i'm talking about disco.xyz, spruce.id, and Gitcoin Passport. the fact that you've conflated the two proves my point that nobody uses real DIDs.

cb.id issued over 4M subnames through ENS dapp. And will probably do the same at some point for their Base chain with .base.eth

Decentraland did the same with dcl.eth for their game users

Decentralized no-code website builders are using them to add content hash record for website + .limo to resolve in browsers

Etc.

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i can agree with that. infra -> apps -> users, and once users like the new paradigm enough then it spreads back upwards. 

i'm curious if you have any examples of apps that have already adopted DIDs as either primary or option modes of auth

The largest user base is on enterprise/government side.
Attended the Internet Identity Workshop (focused on decentralized identity infra) last fall and the perspective was a top down approach would actually drive adoption as the infra must be in place to enable use of these identifiers

Top down v bottom up in crypto