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> The idea you need to keep registering, providing emails, phones to everyone, picking usernames ...

The great advantage of this workflow is that it minimises damage in event of service shutdown or malicious actors.

By maintaining discrete identities for each service you are compartmentalising and building resilience. It also provides a first layer of privacy, since it becomes more difficult for a malicious actor to correlate identities across services.



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