- From: Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>
- Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2024 11:26:55 -0500
- To: W3C Credentials CG <public-credentials@w3.org>
I know a number of us overlap with interests in the social web tech community. Christine Webber, a long-time CCG member and the lead editor and author of the W3C ActivityPub standard[1], which is the basis for a number of Fediverse social networking services such as Mastodon and Threads, has written an interesting piece about decentralization and BlueSky: https://dustycloud.org/blog/how-decentralized-is-bluesky/ Of particular interest to this community is what Christine says around DIDs and what might be required to make them decentralized beyond what BlueSky is doing. There are a number of other interesting observations around the various definitions of "decentralization", DNS, petname systems, account portability, object capabilities, and scaling characteristics of decentralized protocols that are of interest to this community as well. It's a good prelude to some work that is currently going in the community and what is to come in 2025. It's a long read, but a good one, and is filled with thought provoking observations, as we've come to expect from Christine. -- manu [1] https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/ -- Manu Sporny - https://www.linkedin.com/in/manusporny/ Founder/CEO - Digital Bazaar, Inc. https://www.digitalbazaar.com/
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