Comment on Great ATProto blog post on the reasoning behind their design architecture
aeshna_cyanea@lemm.ee 1 week agoThis is false, they support did:web which ties your identity to ownership of a DNS name (which is its own can of worms, but not PLC).
The other part is that you still have to register it to get indexed by the relay, so people can read your posts without querying your server directly (which is possible but discouraged).
flamingos@feddit.uk 1 week ago
I spent a couple hours trying to create an account on pds.flamingos-cant.xyz that uses a
did:webfollowing the instructions here and the account at the end ended up with adid:plc, so IDK how you create a PDS with adid:webbut it’s clearly not something they put a lot of effort into supporting.