Centralization always happens in some way or another, I'd argue. It rhymes with the old Silicon Valley adage that all startups are either bundling or unbundling things.
That being said, I agree that most people don't want to have one identity that everything is attached to. They tend to have identities based on group membership that sometimes overlaps. When it does in a way we don't expect or doesn't meet some social norm it feels like a privacy violation. Contextual Integrity is a great privacy framework to consider these issues.
I've written about this a bit through the lens of communal computing in the home:
Good to see Californian Ideology crop up here, very useful frame! Have you ever read Gavin Mueller's extension of Californian Ideology, Digital Proudhonism? https://www.boundary2.org/2018/07/mueller/
Centralization always happens in some way or another, I'd argue. It rhymes with the old Silicon Valley adage that all startups are either bundling or unbundling things.
That being said, I agree that most people don't want to have one identity that everything is attached to. They tend to have identities based on group membership that sometimes overlaps. When it does in a way we don't expect or doesn't meet some social norm it feels like a privacy violation. Contextual Integrity is a great privacy framework to consider these issues.
I've written about this a bit through the lens of communal computing in the home:
https://www.oreilly.com/radar/communal-computings-many-problems/
I'm trying to pull some content together now about identity in this new web3/metaverse/name-your-hyped-tech-train too.
Good to see Californian Ideology crop up here, very useful frame! Have you ever read Gavin Mueller's extension of Californian Ideology, Digital Proudhonism? https://www.boundary2.org/2018/07/mueller/