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Lane 🦢 2y ago

Can someone help my pea brain understand the fundamental difference between nostr and TBD's DID architecture?

In my head, the latter uses decentralized identities with centralized platforms, whereas the former is decentralized all the way down.

Is that right?

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Lane 🦢 2y ago

And if so, I can't help but think that centralized platforms will outcompete a decentralized protocol (in terms of funding, features, and so on).

And I can't decide if this is a major problem or not.

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PABLOF7z 2y ago

what's the centralized platform?

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Lane 🦢 2y ago

I have no idea tbh!

Couldn't centralized platforms build on top of DIDs, which would make the communications layer centralized, whereas the nostr communications layer is fully decentralized?

I'm just pontificating I am not at all up to speed.

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brianco 2y ago

https://developer.tbd.website/projects/web5/

They claim both decentralized identify and decentralized personal datastore as their goal.

Getzion.com is an example of DID used with decentralized datastore model. There is nothing specific about DID that requires it to be implemented with centralized platforms.