In reply to @Ward:matrix.org
fgaz: Our use of openid was so long ago that I can't even remember how it worked. I selectively moved a number of fed.wiki.org subdomains off of the original ruby implementation of the server and they would expect a Twitter or Google id. Github ids are also an option but I haven't registered any of my sites to use that identity provider. I keep the old ruby code running just to show that it still works except for login. Have you lost access to something you have written years ago?

I am reminded of Alan Kay’s words:

Putting a writing system into an oral society doesn’t actually do it, doesn’t change them. It requires something more, because the thing that’s important about writing and how it changes the thinking of the civilization is the literate aspects of it, the structure and the thought, in various ways. Anyway, so this is all stuff that’s water over the dam, but most people don’t understand it. Most people in media don’t understand it.
If you read [Marshall] McLuhan, the first thing you realize is: Wow, if we could make something like a printing press—but its content is the next level of dealing with complexity, beyond what we could do with prose and written-down mathematics and stuff like that—we can actually create a media environment that the acclimation to [which], just like the acclimation to the printing press, would be another level of thought. And by the way, we need it, because our technology is taking us into a place where we need another level of thought, beyond the level that it took to create it.