@arcanicanis @eriner @alex W3C is not about standards anymore, it's about status. Often people who write specs don't care about implementers at all, and if anything useful comes from W3C, be it ActivityPub or Data Integrity spec, it's almost like a miracle.
Verifiable Credentials at least gets recognized by developers outside of W3C bubble, though personally I don't see much value there besides Data Integrity spec and cryptosuites. The only parties who seem to be genuinely interested in Verifiable Credentials are governments that roll out dystopian digital ID and social credit systems, as this post suggests:
This is the story of the blue, and therefore white LED. It’s also a human story. Amazing how recent was the blue LED problem finally solved. The video is rather technical in the first half, albeit in a very accessible way.
I understand many of you have misgivings about LED. Hopefully this might alleviate it somewhat.
So I got back into Nostr after a several month hiatus. It seems like the zap begging has died down. It honestly reminds me of pre-Poast, pre-Elon fedi. It's more laid-back and open-minded (with a slight right-libertarian bias, but that's to be expected), and doesn't have the pedos, glowies, schizos, or dramatards (yet).