I do indeed strongly believe decentralized identity is critical to free internet. I cannot imagine any good outcomes from trusting a small handful of corporations that answer to a small handful of governments to decide what identity and access mean online.
But to your point, not nearly enough people have a concept of a desire to want digital sovereignty. Ownership of their own identity in a way a company has no control of.
And the ones curious about this concept, find the barrier to explore it impossibly high. That is why I have been so convinced in recent years that UX and social dynamics matter in cryptography as much as the math behind it.
That is why we put so much thought into keyfork. We realized it has to be one or two commands tops to be up and running with a new keychain or no one is going to do it.
This is what I mean when I suggest people who use PGP are LARPing. It's perfectly reasonable to prefer decentralized systems to centralized ones or to think that it's critically important to the future of the Internet that we pursue decentralization. But cryptosystems need to function when lives are on the line; the preference of an system with inferior, flawed cryptography, in pursuit of a philosophical goal about Internet governance, betrays the fact that the security you're after is only a secondary goal.
You see all sorts of different variants of this argument. People cling to PGP because they believe SMTP email needs a future. What does that have to do with protecting the life of a user? Nothing. People cling to PGP because of concerns about open source. Same issue. Not wanting to run things on their phone. Same issue.
But to your point, not nearly enough people have a concept of a desire to want digital sovereignty. Ownership of their own identity in a way a company has no control of.
And the ones curious about this concept, find the barrier to explore it impossibly high. That is why I have been so convinced in recent years that UX and social dynamics matter in cryptography as much as the math behind it.
That is why we put so much thought into keyfork. We realized it has to be one or two commands tops to be up and running with a new keychain or no one is going to do it.