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A decentralized system with cryptographic identities wouldn't even require that. All these rituals about "dragging your mouse around for 2 minutes" and overloaded UIs, like in Retroshare and Freenet, were simply aimed at people who felt more comfortable, not less, seeing them.
Needs sybil attack protection.
A few solutions:
Federated identity services. Like old Skype had identity service as its only centralized part, one can make the same thing, but federated. Would require registration and finding one just like the comment I was answering to complains.
F2F and trust elements - people can trust each other via QR codes or something, with 1 trusted peer beating any number of untrusted peers.
Reputation system elements (like Kad network has), which is not enough a protection, but makes them more expensive.
Like an SSO system?
Yes. I meant specifically something like old Skype authentication servers, sharing identities via ActivityPub. So that one person is registered on one server, another on another server, but they'll both find each other in contact directory and will be able to communicate.
But that's only for contact info, the actual content of the network should be decentralized and not stored on federated servers. Again, like old Skype (in the point of division between what's centralized and what's not).