@VexCatalyst Take a minute to read what DIDs are. It’s not centralized. It’s not managed by one authority. A government, a local authority, an educative institution, a non-for-profit corporation, or someone you actually trust can act as registration authority. There’s not one authority, in the same way there’s no one email provider. You decide what you share, you decide what information is available. Right now, you have to provide information (at least your email address, but normally much more than that) every time you want to login to an instance, or be treated as a stranger.

@theory I don’t care what BlueSky does. The fediverse is built on top of ActivityPub. It only needs a decentralised ID solution, not changing the protocol to something developed by a corporation. Open communities and corporations have different goals. If they want to contribute, they should contribute to the fediverse, and not do “their own thing”. There’s a reason they don’t do that, and the reason is they have their own goals and interests, and those are not necessarily the same as those of the community.

@AeonThoth No. The solution to that exists, and it’s called DID (Decentralized Identifiers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decentralized_identifier), but for some strange reason, it’s not used in the fediverse. Using the ID from one of the “traditional” providers (for example, Google or Facebook) still ties you to a corporation. The fediverse is a step in the good direction, but self-sovereign identity is a logical and inevitable step that it’s still pending.