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#internet #socialMedia #hubzilla #nomadicIdentity
This thread is well worth reading. It's about the #W3C standard DID: "Decentralized identifiers (DIDs) are a new type of identifier that enables verifiable, decentralized digital identity.". The take away: We already had a solution for Decentralized identifiers but … #NIH.
My #Hubzilla had this (here it is called "Nomadic Identity") and it rescued my fediverse identity.
It starts with this posting:
glyn (@underlap@fosstodon.org)
What would it take to add decentralised identity (e.g. W3C DIDs) to the Fediverse? Who is already working on this?
Bluesky's AT Protocol is a great proof of concept, but probably isn't the endgame. Abstracting Fediverse identity using hostnames and WebFinger is another useful experiment, but again probably not the endgame.
The Folks from #Hubzilla are stepping in and explain, that this problem was already solved even before #ActivityPub existed:
@glyn Decentralised identity has been available for longer than Mastodon, let alone ActivityPub. Only that it is known as "nomadic identity" here.
It was first implemented by Friendica creator @mike@unfediverse.com Macgirvin ?️ in the Zot protocol in 2011 and in a Friendica fork named Red in 2012, later renamed into the Red Matrix, eventually reworked and renamed into Hubzilla in 2015.
Proof: This Hubzilla channel of mine actually simultaneously resides on two servers.
(Almost) everything that Mike has made afterwards, forks and forks of forks of Hubzilla, used to have or still have nomadic identity implemented.