It could be. More about supporting a federation of interoperable apps though.

When other devs have tried decentralized identity it's typically been tied to another function like a wallet or messaging app. You need some other incentive/utility to bootstrap usage.

Nostr on the other hand already has identity, auth, and social graph built into to the protocol. The other apps on the network are the utility.

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Nostr as portable identity and social graph!! 🫂

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