I am one of the 13k that is that little red guy. I just migrated my openid provider to a docker container and changed the certificate to LetsEncrypt.
Slashdot removed support, as did shirt woot and deletionpedia. Freecode and gitorious are gone. After this, the only things I'll have left on openid will be pipy (which doesn't seem to work) and openstreetmaps.
I understand why and the technical debt involved, but this still makes me very sad. We're moving in the wrong direction. We're going away from open, federated, distributed standards and back to closed, wall-gardened, proprietary, massive identity providers.
Slashdot removed support, as did shirt woot and deletionpedia. Freecode and gitorious are gone. After this, the only things I'll have left on openid will be pipy (which doesn't seem to work) and openstreetmaps.
I understand why and the technical debt involved, but this still makes me very sad. We're moving in the wrong direction. We're going away from open, federated, distributed standards and back to closed, wall-gardened, proprietary, massive identity providers.