INTERSECTIONAL SOCIAL DATA
"DeCartgraphy" is a Decentralized Social Graph for the Plurality Era that focuses on INTERSECTIONAL SOCIAL DATA. This concept aims to enable network participants to generate their own unique identifiers through open standards, rather than relying on trusted entities that provide identifiers DID. However, it is important to question how effectively these tools can be used as alternatives to institution-provided identities, as information asserted solely by individuals is largely meaningless in building trust with strangers Ultimately, information that is only asserted by individuals is largely meaningless in building trust with strangers. One natural approach is to allow individuals to easily store and manage credentials issued by institutions through DID. Governments already issue birth certificates, driver's licenses, and professional licenses, while insurance companies issue cards to policyholders, banks issue cards to account holders, and schools issue credentials to students and staff. However, some argue that this still requires a TTP (Trusted Third Party) tkgshn.icon. There have been discussions about the design of a system that allows individuals to issue credentials themselves, which can be trusted based on societal structures and relationships, creating a more self-sovereign system that is built by each individual citizen Yudai.icon. The idea is that individuals with high trust scores can have their claims trusted, or if consensus can be reached when making self-claims (e.g., "I am 20 years old") Yudai.icon. Implementing a consensus score would require a significant dispersion of evaluations to prevent easy Sybil attacks that could destroy a person's credibility, although it is also possible to increase one's score Yudai.icon. However, solving this issue seems challenging Yudai.icon. While these systems can remove credentials from the control of a few platforms, they still heavily rely on existing and external social institutions that may have centralized, authoritarian, or other potential issues. The potential of information technology lies in not just representing what exists in a system, but in creating new paths of trust emergence from social relationship networks. This is where the concept of Intersectional Social Data comes into play. Verifying identity as a social intersection means demonstrating uniqueness by showing only a part of one's identity without revealing too much about oneself. The idea is to hold all your data yourself and have trusted individuals make copies of some of it, allowing the network to be built and verified. This concept is also known as the Spectrum of Identity or Identity Spectrum.