The Web's Missing Piece: How DID-Nostr Quietly Solves Social Portability

Much of the SWICG focus is currently on the microblogging use case, and
streams of activities. Outside our group, though, “social web” often means
people, friends, and connections, the Facebook-style social graph. I’ve
been exploring whether today’s W3C building blocks can make a portable,
URI-addressable social graph practical, alongside streams rather than
instead of them.

The blog post uses Nostr, self-sovereign, portable, identity as a worked
example, but the graph model aims to be broadly compatible with
ActivityPub, Bluesky/AT, Solid, and the wider social web. The intent isn’t
to pick winners, just to surface a simple, portable graph that could serve
as common ground across stacks. Perhaps useful food for thought, for some
here.

https://dev.to/melvincarvalho/the-webs-missing-piece-how-did-nostr-quietly-solves-social-portability-1bg

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