Dan M 🇺🇦👨‍💻🎾🚘🏳️‍🌈

Passwords made my mother cry again. It's unreasonable to expect people to remember varying usernames and passwords for as many as 100 sites, most of which are infrequently used. Password managers can help, but they often fail to catch reset flows. In cross-device scenarios, you're often forced to use multiple password managers due to how systems operate. Typically, passwords are about 10 characters long. If these passwords are unique and random, we're asking people to remember an ever-changing set of characters, maybe as many as 1000, across numerous sites. To rely on password managers, we're expecting regular users to understand how these systems work and to manually verify they are living up to expectations. This reliance on complex password systems isolates older people from technology, the communities they engage with, and the supporting infrastructure. We need the web to standardize on WebAuthN and Passkeys. They promise to greatly simplify the experience for users. By adopting these technologies, we can make the web more user-friendly and inclusive, reducing the burden of password management and increasing accessibility for all.