What is the future of identity on the social web? Could it span federation protocols and be baked into the internet itself? What could it look like to everyday users and how would it be used?

There’s no better person to ask than @[email protected] CEO of Bluesky. Jay’s extensive experience and deep knowledge about the promise, products and protocols underlying the fediverse is legendary.

If you’re building for the #fediverse this conversation will get you thinking and inspired. Check it out wherever you get your podcasts or watch it on our PeerTube instance:

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  • smallpatatas@lemm.ee
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    11 hours ago

    Not sure I understand the question. The web was built on hyperlinks. I can post a link on my social media profile(s) to my blog, and vice versa. If there’s a link in both directions, then it’s pretty likely it’s the same person/entity behind both.

    So far, the DIDs on Bluesky are either 1) a custom domain name, or 2) a Decentralized Identity provider - which it looks like people may be able to self-host(?) but of course few will do so.

    Curious what potential advantages there are over just bidirectionally linking to stuff - other than it potentially creating a new ‘single sign on’ for data harvesting?