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I want to make pubky so good that no indiehacker can be bothered setting up a backend to validate an idea.

They would tell early adoptors; Just sign in with your pubky and come with your own backend, and that wouldn't be too much to ask. Maybe even attractive to users who know that their data won't disappear if the developer got distracted by another side project.
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the axiom 1y ago

wasn't that the idea of remotestorage too?

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Nuh 1y ago

Pubky is definitely inspired by RemoteStorage and the general Unhosted.org philosophy. I believe we do things that RemoteStorage does not do though. Most importantly; Pkarr instead of web fingers, and the paginated listing API making Pubky an ordered key value store, not just a filesystem.

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the axiom 1y ago

how do you envision it happening? like how are users going to authenticate from a random webapp in order to read or write to their backend?