So, fediverse actors (re: Mastodon, Kbin, Lemmy, Pixelfed, etc.), should we talk about Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decentralized_identifier) now or what? Self-sovereign identity is a necessary step, if we want a coherent #fediverse, with less friction to roam around instances.
Its apparently already a solved issue in AT Protocol
@theory I don’t care what BlueSky does. The fediverse is built on top of ActivityPub. It only needs a decentralised ID solution, not changing the protocol to something developed by a corporation. Open communities and corporations have different goals. If they want to contribute, they should contribute to the fediverse, and not do “their own thing”. There’s a reason they don’t do that, and the reason is they have their own goals and interests, and those are not necessarily the same as those of the community.
Im gonna be real with you, its not gonna happen in activitypub. Its too significant a change to how things work, that in practical terms it “cant be done”