Notices by Dmitri | 🇺🇦 (dmitri@social.coop), page 2

Just whose team am I on? Uh... I'm on team Plurality, Queer Post-Scarcity Space Anarchism, and Libre and Liberatory Software. I'm against fascism, and _for_ trying to survive the current Multicrisis/Jackpot with the least loss of human lives and least species extinctions. (Except for deer ticks, those can seriously go to hell.) So in that regard, I think (until proof to the contrary) that the Bluesky team is on our side.

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But so, where am I going to be spending my time and effort? On the Fediverse side, of course.

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Btw, I'm not thrilled with the term "Fediverse". It's better than "Mastodon", of course, for obvious reasons. And better than "ActivityPub" (since that's just ONE protocol of the whole stack). But the thing is.. there's nothing sacred about federation. It's just one (albeit important) tool in the distributed system toolbox. To name our whole scene after it, is like naming us "Array-ists", or "Linked List-ists". It's just a low level detail.
Let's just call us what we are: Open Social Web.

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Anyways, what do I think of the current Fediverse: Well, it's my people. I love it and use it, and am hoping to help it in whatever ways possible (paying instance admins, reviving the W3C Social Web Incubation Community Group for standards work, building bridges). Do I think it needs some improvements? Oh, hells yes -- and I'm'a tell you all about those, shortly.

So, we have a lot of work to do. And remember, we're aiming for the Pluriverse. And lots of bridges.

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@silverpill I don't suppose we can convince the spec authors to rename it to the 'Authentication' framework, rather than authorization? Cause DIDs are just for authn; for authz you should use a combination of Solid-style ACLs and capabilities like UCANs.

@cuchaz @grishka ok, but also, use DIDs (Decentralized Identifiers). Like, start with did:web (which is just a well-formatted JSON object that lives on a domain).

Btw, @silverpill - I wanted to say, you're doing an EXCELLENT job with those signing FEPs!