Comment on Implementing Portable User Identities with DIDs
zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks agoA did is a virtual actor that reroutes to a real actor and collects content across real actors
Where is that virtual actor hosted? If it’s centralized, I feel like it defeats the purpose of user-centric identity control. If it’s user-hosted, that sounds like GPG with extra, even more inconvenient steps.
muntedcrocodile@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Its both. It can we a json file served from some webserver. It can be a peer hosted thing where a bunch of instances host it on your behalf. It can be something that exists on your designated identity server. It can be a transaction on a blockchain. And as long as the software knows how to resolve it they all work.
zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Having to figure out hosting, no matter if it’s self, peer, or whatever else hosting, kinda makes this proposal DOA I think. It’s kinda using a jackhammer for a problem that’s already been solved by a screwdriver.