theoretical considerations on identity management
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so, this is a bit of an abstract mathematical post.
I think that a fediverse service consists mostly of three parts: identity provider, data hoster, and feed provider.
The data hoster is the machine that hosts the posts and comments and upvote/downvote stats. The feed provider is the service which gives you a nice, scrollable overview over new content for you. This is today the same system that provides the data, but it could be separated, such as having a custom "search engine" that gives you content, that you use independently of where the data is stored.
The identity provider basically only makes a proof that "you are you" : you give it your login credentials and it gives you a kind of token that authenticates (proves your identity) to other services. like, i'm on discuss.tchncs.de, but i can post to lemmy.world. this is because the discuss.tchncs.de server says to lemmy.world that i indeed have this account on this server. so they prove my identity in a way.
What i argue now is that such an identity providing server is not technically necessary. You could use something like an
~/.ssh/id_rsafile that you generate on your own computer and use that public key to identify yourself on the fediverse. I don't think that this approach has any inherent advantages over how things are being done today, but it could be done that way and that in itself is fascinating.:D
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Isn't that basically a Piefed topic?
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So if I understand you, Lemmy would benefit from a grouping above /c that’s not instance related? Like Usenet had the rec.cats group which spawned rec.cats.siamese? So maybe a /u universe? If I wanted to read about television I could go to u/television which could merge feeds of c/television@piefed.social and c/television@lemmy.world and any other c/television@_._? I could see possibilities of abuse but we shouldn’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good. Maybe a /u could be an opt in thing with a manager of some kind to prevent unrelated /c’s from randomly joining.
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I'm talking to you from it right now 🤨
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You'll find more of what you like too
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It's global trending. Which I find unfortunate, because it basically defeats a purpose of thematic servers. For example I'm on Polish server, full of people taking in Polish, but I see only global trends which are not at all in Polish 🫤
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it doesn't look like it's federated.. let alone linked to mastodon?
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@ntn888@lemmy.ml yep, it's a forum you can self host.
https://github.com/nodebb/nodebb
Or join activitypub.space (but that one is geared toward fediverse developers)
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I searched for nodebb.. it is just forum hosting?
