You’re just scaremongering. You’re equaling digital ID (which is a very useful tool) with universal online ID verification. Those are not the same things. You can have digital ID without mass ID verification (like I do) and you can have age and ID checks without digital IDs (like in UK). It’s like being against law enforcement because police is used to create police states. Yeah, it’s hard to create a police state without police but not every country with police is a police state.

The problem is the usage not the IDs themselves

I agree but the general attitude seems to be “digital ID bad!”, without ever going into any details. People on lemmy are simply scared of digital IDs without understanding what those do.

Yeah, I noticed that but for now it’s acceptable for me. There’s an alternative client in f-droid I will try later.

That’s ok, I don’t care if you believe me or not.

Many things can be used for online identification and oppression, for example credit cards or cellphones. Why singe out digital ID? Are you going to fight against credit cards and cellphones as well or just digital ID?

GitHub was great tool for Microsoft to funnel users to Azure. How did they fucked that up? Next they will integrate with Anthropic and lose copilot revenue.

netbird. I was looking at all the tools recently and discarded tailscale because it requires github/google account (or self hosting authentication provider or self hosting headscale). I’m logging into netbird with my email and it works great. It also easier to self host than headscale but I didn’t have time to set it up yet.

And I don’t use my digital ID to open online forums.

What for?

My country had digital ID for 20 years. You’re saying they introduced it only to force age verification decades later? Because they want to do age verification using the EU proposed method, not using our digital IDs.

If you use credit cards to block underage from accessing social media it’s also a different situation. Do you have a credit card?

What does any of this has to do with digital ID? I’m using digit ID to access government services and sign documents, not to express my opinions online.

I have a digital ID and use it all the time. What’s wrong with it?