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rglullis@communick.news 4 days agoIt looks like we are talking past one-another.
What I am trying to say is that “getting the user to complete a login” is not the novel part that is missing. What we are missing is a way for the user to have control over their actor ID, so that they use the same id regardless of what user that id is delegated to.
So, unless I am misunderstanding you, what you are proposing is an OIDC provider which could be used to authenticate on any other service. That’s good, but it doesn’t solve the problem that if we had an unified OIDC provider without a DID, all of the actor ids would end up dependent on the OIDC provider.
muntedcrocodile@hilariouschaos.com 4 days ago
Ahh I see what ur saying now. Yeah the actor id is hard as it needs to be an actual dereferenceable uri as actors need an inbox and outbox of activities.
I don’t think u can maintain cross instance actor ids. The only issue I see with having multiple actor ids for the same user is that they will have their content and profile split across multiple instances.
I guess u could have a meta id that dereferences to all ur actor ids?
rglullis@communick.news 4 days ago
Yes, that would be ATProto’s did:plc system.
muntedcrocodile@hilariouschaos.com 4 days ago
Ahh I see I’ve never looked into how atproto works might need to look into it and sees if some of its systems can be adapted for Activpub. Thx for the info
rglullis@communick.news 4 days ago
If you are keen on working on something like that, let me know. I’ve done some preliminary work to get a DID system that would work like did:plc but I got a bit stuck trying to use a decentralized database based on IPFS as the “ledger” mechanism.