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1. Aeliana (Aeli) Isidora (lina@tech.lgbt)'s status on Monday, 19-Jun-2023 06:03:35 JST Aeliana (Aeli) Isidora

   warning: long post ahead; probably screenreader unfriendly

   i wonder would it be possible to add some sort of "identity servers" to fedi so that, let's say i'm @lina@lina.moe even tho i'm using a mastodon instance hosted elsewhere

   could see that as a hierarchy? of keypairs
   let's say i use tech.lgbt as my mastodon server, meaning it has generated a keypair, perhaps `tech.lgbt/@lina@lina.moe#mainkey`
   identity server would then sign the public key, so the Actor object would have this?
   ```
   {
   // ...
   "identity": "https://lina.moe/lina",
   "publicKeyPem": {
   "id": "https://tech.lgbt/@lina@lina.moe#mainkey",
   "publicKeyPem": "...",
   "signature": "..."
   }
   }
   ```
   and the identity server would be able to verify the signature to say "yes that's lina" or "no she's being impersonated"

   please boost so that i get feedback on how weird and impossible this idea is and maybe if someone has actually implemented smth similar before 🥺