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oliver
@eikopf.com

between passkeys and webp i’m starting to think that software consumers just hate good things

weeder@weeder.bsky.social

Nobody ever explained to me what a passkey is or how they work. Websites just started asking me for passkeys like it's something we talked about.

fry69
@fry69.dev

Consumers dislike change, unless you lure them somehow.

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oliver
@eikopf.com

unfortunately consumers also love using the same password for everything so sometimes you have to bully them into the future a little

fry69
@fry69.dev

That is a natural instinct, you cannot change that. Passwords are a band-aid, a quick fix for developers, not a user friendly solution.

fry69
@fry69.dev

That may also why "passkeys" get treated with suspicion. This sounds too much alike "passwords", which get universally hated by consumers.

Raptor
@raptornx01.bsky.social

years of working in IT at the average customer level (ie retail) have taught me to hate them with a passion. and 2FA. "oh... you signed up using your landline phone number... thats nice" "so you don't have a cell phone at all?" *deep vein thrombosis*

alto!
@alto.fish

“we're gonna have to drag these people into the 21st century” — someone in a thread about linux adopting rust some years ago