Identities, explained:
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Identities, explained:
- ActivityPub identities are https: URLs
- Nobody uses them
- We use username@domain Webfinger addresses instead
- Bluesky identities are another kind of URI called a DID
- Nobody uses those either
- They use a domain name that looks like an https: URL instead@evan slightly related, and I think you may have a FEP relating to it as well. But the fediverse could adopt aliasing domains to their account via DNS records as well. Create a TXT record for your domain that points to your mastodon user@home_instance. The lift will be getting all the different AP apps to implement it tho 🥲
This would give users the ability to migrate identities* across* instances* as well.
Edit: forgot a few words!
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Identities, explained:
- ActivityPub identities are https: URLs
- Nobody uses them
- We use username@domain Webfinger addresses instead
- Bluesky identities are another kind of URI called a DID
- Nobody uses those either
- They use a domain name that looks like an https: URL instead@evan Can you explain what you mean re Bluesky — I had to add my DID into my domain host when setting up my domain as URL. Or are you just saying nobody uses the DID as a public ID?
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@evan Can you explain what you mean re Bluesky — I had to add my DID into my domain host when setting up my domain as URL. Or are you just saying nobody uses the DID as a public ID?
@ricmac yes, you're correct and I'm exaggerating for comic effect. I don't know enough about Bluesky to say if it's possible to use the DID for anything else (can you at-did someone...?).
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@ricmac yes, you're correct and I'm exaggerating for comic effect. I don't know enough about Bluesky to say if it's possible to use the DID for anything else (can you at-did someone...?).
@evan I believe developers use it to authenticate users, etc, as it’s the canonical ID for users.
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@evan I believe developers use it to authenticate users, etc, as it’s the canonical ID for users.
@ricmac yeah, we use ActivityPub actor IDs (the URLs) under the covers, too.
I feel like we're kind of ruining the humour here, btw.
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@ricmac yeah, we use ActivityPub actor IDs (the URLs) under the covers, too.
I feel like we're kind of ruining the humour here, btw.
@evan Sorry, I actually wasn’t sure if you were being serious or not
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@evan Sorry, I actually wasn’t sure if you were being serious or not
I may have missed some of the context…@ricmac There wasn't any. I was just pointing out that both stacks have a canonical ID, and a more usable ID, and it's funny that the canonical ID of one is the usable ID of the other.
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@ricmac There wasn't any. I was just pointing out that both stacks have a canonical ID, and a more usable ID, and it's funny that the canonical ID of one is the usable ID of the other.
@evan Ahhh, ok. I think my brain didn’t make that connection because I always think of a URL as an address, whereas a DID is an identity. Or maybe I just need to be more alert to web witticisms!
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@evan Ahhh, ok. I think my brain didn’t make that connection because I always think of a URL as an address, whereas a DID is an identity. Or maybe I just need to be more alert to web witticisms!
@ricmac you know how when a post is in another language and there's a "translate" button? It'd be nice to have a "what is Evan talking about" button that linked to a ChatGPT explanation. (I think this is actually what some people use Grok for on X...?)
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@evan slightly related, and I think you may have a FEP relating to it as well. But the fediverse could adopt aliasing domains to their account via DNS records as well. Create a TXT record for your domain that points to your mastodon user@home_instance. The lift will be getting all the different AP apps to implement it tho 🥲
This would give users the ability to migrate identities* across* instances* as well.
Edit: forgot a few words!
@quaff Fediverse account servers could just support BYOD directly, too. Point yourdomain.example at socialnetwork.example, configure it in your user sessions, and then just use username@yourdomain.example as your handle.
