One of the Zot's most powerful concepts for identity management and remote access is being ported to work on ActivityPub. It could change the Fediverse.

Mike Macgirvin, the long-time developer that brought us Friendica, Hubzilla, Streams, and the Zot protocol, is bringing his most powerful concept to the rest of the Fediverse: Nomadic Identity.

  • Otter@lemmy.caEnglish
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    9 months ago

    Super cool, the worry of an instance dying will make people avoid smaller instances and pick the big stable ones. Having this safety net should help balance things out.

    I wonder if this could work with threadiverse communities. We’ve seen communities disappear when an instance goes down. Could the communities also be saved like this?

    • Ada@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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      9 months ago

      I don’t see why not. And in fact, they would benefit from the whole relay thing, allowing multiple accounts on different instances to be the “same” community

      • jqubed@lemmy.world
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        9 months ago

        That could be an improvement over following 3 or 4 identically named communities on different instances

        • 0x1C3B00DA@fedia.io
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          9 months ago

          It wouldn’t change that, unless the moderators of those communities agreed to merge them by using the same cryptographic identity.

        • poVoq@slrpnk.net
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          9 months ago

          Personally I like that there are different communities with different characters, but the option for community moderators to opt into such a nomadic arrangement would certainly not hurt. At least it is much better than if 3rd parties like clients or alternative implementations like Piedfed smash them together with currently no way for communities to opt out of that.