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1. silverpill (silverpill@mitra.social)'s status on Friday, 28-Apr-2023 21:37:41 JST silverpill

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   • Râu Cao ⚡

   @raucao Yes, it is possible to add decentralized identity to Fediverse in a backwards compatible way. I wrote a spec for linking cryptographic keys to ActivityPub actors: https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/src/branch/main/feps/fep-c390.md (it is based on DID and Data Integrity standards), and also implemented a simple portable identity mechanism based on this idea (it works like Mastodon's move account feature, but permission from an old server is not necessary).

   I think Bluesky team decided to re-invent the wheel because they wanted a silo where they can have greater control over users identity and data.

   https://mastodon.online/users/mastodonmigration/statuses/110273442030673147

   Or they didn't read the ActivityPub spec. The majority of what people perceive as AP flaws are in fact Mastodon implementation details.

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   • Râu Cao ⚡ (raucao@kosmos.social)'s status on Friday, 28-Apr-2023 21:37:43 JST Râu Cao ⚡

     #Bluesky should have been an #ActivityPub implementation, adding DIDs as a new optional feature, and competing with Mastodon and other implementations (both servers and clients) on the count of portable identity and data storage.

     I'd be happy to learn why backwards compat would have been impossible. I don't see any major blockers at first glance.

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