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I'm still new to gemini so I wanna ask a question. Do you really need a lot of identities or can you just use one for everything, forever (well, until the expiration date)?
2 years ago · 👍 justyb, sam, lykso, eph, fen
I've chosen to keep a single long-lived certificate, myself. I set the expiration date to the year 4096. · 2 years ago
you can have one identity for as many sites as you want or create many separate identities for each site and multiple identities for one site · 2 years ago
I would compare one identity for everything forever with a cookie in the "normal" web, accessible by every website to track who you are. · 2 years ago
Using the same client certificate for many different services allows them to identify you at 100% certainty, if the operators of the servers can share data between them. Since you don’t really know who operates the servers, it’s better to have multiple different certificates.
One possible approach is to have different “tiers” of identities, depending on how much you want to reveal about yourself and how much you trust the server operator. This may be more convenient than creating lots and lots of unique certificates. · 2 years ago
There's nothing stopping you from doing that as far as I'm aware. I think the only consideration would be that it would technically make it possible to tie you to all the different capsules you visit. · 2 years ago