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This thing is going to get sybilled to hell if it gains any popularity. I haven’t even seen a captcha anywhere. All pseudonymous forums need some form of effective sybil resistance mechanism if they don’t want it to devolve into a bot farm, not to mention how exponentially worse this problem will continue to get in the near future as AI improves. The only area I’ve seen even plausible ideas on how to stem that in a privacy conscious manner while not having to trust the ownership of your identity with a central entity is in the Ethereum space. Whether Gitcoin passport, ethereum attestation service, soul bound NFTs, etc. This is where I see a lot of people getting the “Aha” moment when it comes to blockchains in the future, because the current web2 trajectory on this is head first into noise oblivion or exceedingly walled gardens without privacy protections, which are both shit outcomes.
having to deal with any blockchain is going to alienate a huge part of the target audience though. I agree that there will likely be thriving communities sometime in the future for which a blockchain related identity will be required, but for stuff like kbin / lemmy, I think a more likely solution will be paying an instance for the privilege of having an account there, with the associated privacy nightmare.
Or rather, if I were to run a kbin/lemmy instance, I’d setup a donation portal to a whitelist of charities, and you’d get to register with my instance only after I get proof that you donated to one of those charities. I figure I could get away with storing almost no personally identifiable information that way, while severely restricting new account numbers and dodging any complaints / legal issues since I’m not getting any money. Many people would scoff at such a requirement (just like they would with anything blockchain related) but I could see it work out fine anyway
Sign in with Ethereum (or something like PGP) does not interact with the blockchain. You simply sign a message with your private key.
the thing is though that using private keys hasn’t taken off for online logins because it’s cumbersome in many cases, and having it tied to a wallet doesn’t really improve on that (plus it will scare people of because “blockchain = scam”). That’s one area where google and apple et al. are making some progress, with storing credentials in secure storage, once people are used to not entering passwords anymore it’ll be much easier to switch to a private key