Comment on Implementing Portable User Identities with DIDs
Ludrol@szmer.info 4 days ago
It will probably need it’s own RFC but let’s hear from the devs if they want to do it. (In my experience it’s hard to push through the desired change)
You will have better time trying to implement this in piefed
rimu@piefed.social 3 days ago
IMO nomadic identity is more important in Mastodon, etc where the fundamental connections of the network are person-to-person - the emphasis is on following other people and having them follow you and that is what determines what content you see. Also being free to leave (and go somewhere else) is a killer feature that centralized social networks cannot offer and nomadic identity really leans into that strength.
In contrast, in the threadiverse you can't follow other people - you join communities. Also when a post is viewed the author is just another piece of meta data, the focus is really on the content. With Mastodon they make a much bigger deal about who is saying the thing, display their avatar much bigger, etc. On Mastodon they're YOUR posts that are strongly tied to you. But here, the posts you make are kiinda more like contributions to a shared wiki (community).
So in PieFed/Lemmy if you need to drop your account on an instance and create a new account on another it's really much less of a loss and not really disruptive at all. You can just import your settings from the old account and continue to post in all the same communities you did before. The need for a nomadic identity just isn't as strong.
Moving communities to another instance, tho, now that would be great. It's on my very long list.
muntedcrocodile@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Due to how the fediverse works if users can be given a did so can a community. It would only migrate for services that support did but wouldn’t be all to different.
rimu@piefed.social 3 days ago
Yep good point. A group is just another type of actor, after all.