The Architecture of Platform Lock-In—And How Portable Identity Makes It Impossible
When Identity Becomes Portable, Platforms Become Optional Sarah deletes her professional networking account. Twenty years of connections, endorsements, recommendations, messages—gone. Doesn’t matter. Her Portable Identity carries everything that actually matters: cryptographically-verified proof she made 847 people measurably more capable, cascade depth of 12,000+ through four network layers, absence delta of 0.73 in her primary contribution … The Architecture of Platform Lock-In—And How Portable Identity Makes It Impossible