One of thing that I find annoying in various decentralized identities is that in 99.99% cases or more it is some awful unreadable meaningless opaque string (obviously either public key or its hash).
Humanity should create more meaningful (human-friendly) form of decentralized identies, that likely could be visualized as some "contact card", optionally with image, with name, and e. g. qr code or other representation of cryptographic material. ⬇️
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Imagine if Alice and Bob decided to communicate via some software where there is some directory of people. Let it be chess club members or company employees.
Or it is social-media type of app with searching for people you contacted before and people discussing in a thread.
And imagine that there are two people with same name, e. g. Bob Atkinson. And one is the person Alice is looking for and other is other person, let it be Malory imposter or even simply unrelevant person with same name. ⬇️
And for Alice (ok, for me too!) these two Bobs, one with keys/ids like ABBB1324....1234 and ABBB1234....1234 will be the same.
Binding these key-based ids to some kind of username of username@example.org sorta solves problem but makes that identity dependent on existence of example.com thingy, so making it centralized one way or another.
What you can suggest as decentralized identity solution?
So far, nothing better than GnuNet approach of GNS with their zones and "pet names" I can imagine.
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