On Fri, Feb 9, 2024 at 12:02 PM Johannes Ernst <johannes.ernst@gmail.com> wrote: > > I don’t think this would actually be all that hard. > > But regardless, what is stopping us from doing this kind of thing? > I do think it would be hard. The current two core types of identity in the fediverse, URL ids and webfinger addresses, both have server hostnames baked into them. They're at the core of all of the fediverse's current code, stored data, and big chunks of UX and users' mental models. We'd have to change all of that. We have a handful of portable identity designs - Nomad, FEP-ef61, etc - which is great! And we may want another that's DNS-based instead of keypair-based; I know at least some people here would favor that. I myself might too, given the recoverability concerns around pure keypair-based identity. Regardless, even once we've settled on a specific design, migrating the entire fediverse to it, including servers and clients and existing data and users, seems like a huge undertaking. That's not stopping us, of course, but it's worth being clear-eyed about. > (Other than the perpetual problem of the fediverse, which is money?) > > Cheers, > > > > Johannes. > > > Johannes Ernst > > Fediforum <https://fediforum.org/> > Dazzle Labs <https://dazzlelabs.net/> > > -- https://snarfed.org/
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