we add a did to objects and keep the id the same. supporting platforms will use did old ones will carry on using id.
did is what ATProto uses this is a step in that direction
Comment on Implementing Portable User Identities with DIDs
flamingos@feddit.uk 6 days ago
Real Account Portability: Move your entire account – posts, comments, followers – to any new instance seamlessly. Your identity travels with you.
This is nice in theory but comes with edge cases that are hard to account for. Like, what if you have a post and your new instance defeds the instance the post’s community is on? You either have to allow banned content onto the instance or the user loses data, neither of which are acceptable.
This is part of why ATProto’s decoupling of user data from app logic is kinda genius and the direction we should go in if we want portable actors in Lemmy/thredi.
Full Fediverse Compatibility: We can add DIDs to Lemmy while staying fully interoperable with Mastodon, Kbin, and all other ActivityPub platforms. No breaking changes, just a powerful upgrade.
Not really, every fediverse platform that people use expects an Object’s id to be a https URI it can just fetch the resource from. This is part of why FEP-ef61 specifies a way of translating a DID to a https URI. That’s not to mention that moving existing actors from their current ID to a DID will cause all sorts of interop problems.
muntedcrocodile@lemmy.world 6 days ago
rimu@piefed.social 6 days ago
Smells like LLM to me.
renzhexiangjiao@piefed.blahaj.zone 6 days ago
yeah, if I were a Lemmy dev, I wouldn't take this proposal seriously because of this. I would be wondering if that person really knows what they're proposing and if they're planning to engage in the discussion themselves or let AI do it for them, and in the latter case it would just be a waste of time.