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If you don't currently depend on a software product for managing your passwords, then you are undoubtedly using weak or reused passwords everywhere. You absolutely should be using a password manager to store unique, complex passwords for everything, and then it's not really a big jump to upgrade to the superior user experience of Passkeys.


> If you don't currently depend on a software product for managing your passwords, then you are undoubtedly using weak or reused passwords everywhere.

Not using software doesn't undoubtedly mean weak reused passwords. You can easily have strong unique passwords without a software product.


Use a 3rd party password manager with Passkey support like 1Password or Bitwarden for the most broad cross-platform support. You can't currently export and import passkeys between different implementations, so if you wanted to switch from Apple iCloud to Google, for example, then you'd have to go to each site and register a new passkey on each of them with your new password manager.

The FIDO alliance as supposedly working on a way to securely transfer passkeys between different password managers, but that's not here yet.


The poor mobile experience, and the seeming inability to even find the content without manually adding #all to the URL, makes this a non-starter.

When looking at #all, there doesn't appear to be any way to register or login without removing that from the URL and going to the splash screen.

It's not clear what posts are videos, and when I clicked one that happened to be, having it auto-play with sound is terrible.


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