Comparing PublicIdentity.org with Hellō.coop

I am planning to use Hellō.coop for authentication, but they can also be seen as a competitor.

Similarties

• Verified identities
• Verified links to identities at various services

Differences

• PIDO will have unverified identities (presumably marked as such)
• PIDO will have identities that are added/verified by admins
• PIDO will have identities for organizations.
• Hellō is going to monetize via paid validation.

Summary

Hellō is focused on verification while PIDO is focused on completeness. I think the differences are enough that I don’t have to worry about them cutting off PIDO.

It would be awesome if I could get Hellō to add a “make my identity public” checkbox that publishes to PIDO.