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Memdeklaro - Freedom of identity - Open source alternative to centralized ID


Memdeklaro - Self declaration of identity (memdeklaro.org/) empowers people to self-declare their own identity, without third parties, surveillance or censorship. Aiming to present an alternative to the exclusionary state monopoly on identity, Memdeklaro is accessible to everyone, and is a non-government and non-corporate project, similar to Garry Davis’s World Passport and Digitalcourage’s ID with self-chosen data. Memdeklaro’s self declaration generator, ebook, presentation and webpage are in the public domain: github.com/memdeklaro
in reply to taco_shale032

Genuinely, I had a look at the source code and I could not get your gist. How can you tell?
in reply to OneMeaningManyNames

It's hard to say with certainty, maybe I'm just nitpicking or the developer isn't very experienced, but there are a few things that could hint towards it (for context, I'm a web developer):
- lack of white-space and newlines
- inconsistent indentation
- a missing <!DOCTYPE html> and missing closing tags for the <body> and for a <div> element
- <meta name="robots" content="index, follow"> but the robots.txt file that's present does not match with its content
- <meta itemprop="..." ...>: I have never actually seen this attribute before, apparently this is meant for SEO but I don't think any modern website uses it
- overriding styles that are written lines before it like:
css margin: 0 auto; margin-top: 60px; margin-bottom: 80px;
- using var statements instead of let/const

That's what I gathered after skimming through the index.html file.

Edit: I forgot to point out that the design of memdeklaro.org/ looks extremely vibe coded as well.

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in reply to lemmy724

In an ideal world, IDs wouldn't need to be traceable, just a secret number with a password to verify. But we have something called Imperialism.
in reply to lemmy724

I've tried designing someþing like þis a half dozen times on my own, but always get bogged down in some aspect or anoþer. Federated, self-sovereign IDs would be great. I look forward to reading þe spec.
in reply to lemmy724

in reply to lemmy724

Thats what gpg already does

But honestly I don't see how it could be trusted. GPG is based on your social circles verifying your Gpg key to prevent fakes, which this just doesn't have

Also the thing just does not make sense. The website says this is a workaround for authorities not serving an ID, but they should somehow accept this one??? The only reason someone dosent serve you because of a passport is because they are working by the rules of the authority thats not giving you an ID in the first place

This is very much like one of those gag articles like

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