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1. silverpill (silverpill@mitra.social)'s status on Wednesday, 08-May-2024 04:37:04 JST silverpill

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   • Sal Rahman

   @manlycoffee did:plc is just a single server that stores account data

   In ActivityPub world we can have real nomadic identities, controlled not by a startup that may disappear tomorrow, but by people themselves

   https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/src/branch/main/fep/ef61/fep-ef61.md

   • Sal Rahman (manlycoffee@techhub.social)'s status on Wednesday, 08-May-2024 04:37:05 JST Sal Rahman

     The whole idea of BlueSky supporting nomadic identities but the rest of the ActivityPub (plus other stuff) Fediverse being unable to do so is such an oversold idea.

     A new service using ActivityPub behind the scenes (and not the AT Protocol) can absolutely support nomadic identities, even if the service doesn't treat a whole website as the actor.

     It will still use did:plc, same as AT Protocol (BlueSky), but once done so, an application that understands how to work with did:plc can dereference an actor based on the DID.

     That said, an existing service will simply not be compatible with this idea, without changing how it operates.

     #Fediverse #ActivityPub #ATProto #ATProtocol #BlueSky #WebFinger