Comment on The Fediverse Passport: A needed tool.
WatDabney@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks agoIt’s not a matter of how ones profile would be accessed, but how it would be created in the first place snd how it would be managed.
Necessarily, those who implement the creation of accounts have control over how they’re created, who is allowed to create them and how they will be handled after creation.
Any scheme to establish one “central” (your own term) account for the entire fediverse will necessarily be managed by one “central” service, which means one “central” authority over account creation and management
ada@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
I'm not the OP.
And no, a central account doesn't require a central service, it just requires amendments to the protocols to allow for a decentralised identity. Nostr, bluesky, etc all work that way. Nostr is full of nazis and bitcoin bros, and bluesky is effectively centralised in other ways, but both of them do have a genuinely decentralised single identity system.
There are a few ways of doing it. A single account on the first platform, and then signing up to remote platforms with that account. A system of trust that allows a user to verify that other remote accounts are genuinely also them. Combine it with platforms that recognise content posted from other accounts/platforms that belong to the same person, and let them edit the "remote" content locally and federate it out again etc.
So you don't end up with a centralised identity, but rather, the ability to manage your identity from whichever instance you happen to be signed in to as if it were created locally on that instance.
WatDabney@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Ah... yes. You're not the OP. You're the one pushing a platform with built in subscription gatekeeping and a raft of reputational anti-features.
Figures.
ada@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
I don't use bluesky or nostr for the very reasons I outlined in my comment