User identity and Activitypub
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Greetings to the Activitypub.space community. I have a question. Is it possible to use Activitypub protocol to define a unique identity on a single account across the various federated platforms, valid for the entire Fediverse?
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Greetings to the Activitypub.space community. I have a question. Is it possible to use Activitypub protocol to define a unique identity on a single account across the various federated platforms, valid for the entire Fediverse?
phi yes! It is very much possible in theory, but in practice it is less of a given.
What you're thinking of is having the "various fediverse platforms" — Mastodon, Pixelfed, WordPress, etc. — allow you to use your existing fediverse account, and for your interactions there to be done by that account, which might not be on the server you're on.
A lot of sites (this one included, for now) doesn't support that, but the base techniques are there.
We know we can achieve fediverse single sign-in through OAuth2, and the ActivityPub API can theoretically accomplish the latter. It's a matter of support, and it's something I want to focus on soon!
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In practice, evan worked on a proof of concept implementation with the geotagging API.
Last I heard he had a proof of concept working, but not sure if he tested it against mariusor@metalhead.club's implementation.
cc evan@cosocial.ca
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julian Thanks. I think there's some confusion among the protocols for defining a single identity for the Fediverse. I've heard about the Nomad, Zot, and Streams protocols for defining a nomadic identity on Activitypub, but I'm a bit confused.
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julian Thanks. I think there's some confusion among the protocols for defining a single identity for the Fediverse. I've heard about the Nomad, Zot, and Streams protocols for defining a nomadic identity on Activitypub, but I'm a bit confused.
phi in that case nomadic identity a la silverpill@mitra.social would be closer.
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phi in that case nomadic identity a la silverpill@mitra.social would be closer.
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julian Thanks. I think there's some confusion among the protocols for defining a single identity for the Fediverse. I've heard about the Nomad, Zot, and Streams protocols for defining a nomadic identity on Activitypub, but I'm a bit confused.
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In practice, evan worked on a proof of concept implementation with the geotagging API.
Last I heard he had a proof of concept working, but not sure if he tested it against mariusor@metalhead.club's implementation.
cc evan@cosocial.ca
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phi yes! It is very much possible in theory, but in practice it is less of a given.
What you're thinking of is having the "various fediverse platforms" — Mastodon, Pixelfed, WordPress, etc. — allow you to use your existing fediverse account, and for your interactions there to be done by that account, which might not be on the server you're on.
A lot of sites (this one included, for now) doesn't support that, but the base techniques are there.
We know we can achieve fediverse single sign-in through OAuth2, and the ActivityPub API can theoretically accomplish the latter. It's a matter of support, and it's something I want to focus on soon!
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Greetings to the Activitypub.space community. I have a question. Is it possible to use Activitypub protocol to define a unique identity on a single account across the various federated platforms, valid for the entire Fediverse?
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> evan@cosocial.ca said One of the most surprising reasons that people have told me that they dropped off the Fediverse is that they simply forget which server they signed up for.
This doesn't surprise me in the slightest. I probably can't remember half the websites I've ended up with accounts on over the years. For instance, the other day I found out I had a seetickets account from over a decade ago which was still kicking around, and I only found this out because they sent me a password reset as part of a migration to SSO.
Most people don't remember URLs, they might remember to open an app if you keep them logged in long enough. Maybe they might bookmark something.
