Too many words about DIDs

28 points by icy

Slackwise

Honestly, DID is a better solution than using big tech corp SSO. Just need something the normies can utilize, like did:plc:; just not sure we all want to 100% trust a central authority, even if it's owned by a non-profit.

Personally working on a project that basically reimplements Keybase but includes W3C DID functionality as well as W3C Verifiable Credentials (VC). My goal is to be able to uniquely, but privately, identify as a non-clanker (human), as well as have a decentralized identity you control.

bja

Are you working on FOKS by chance or something else?

https://foks.pub/
- Slackwise
  
  FOKS is unfortunately not really a Keybase replacement. I'm still figuring out a lot and if what I want is even possible in the way that I want it to be. Currently still tinkering with tech to see what's possible and what pieces fit together.
steveklabnik

Thanks for reading, folks! Several people had good replies with more info about various things on Bluesky itself, if you look at the post link at the bottom of the page.

One thing I should have mentioned is that plc.directory is in the process of moving to its own Swiss non-profit, even if it was initially controlled by Bluesky.
dpc_pw

Judging by the title I thought it will link to the spec. https://www.w3.org/TR/did-1.1/ . The article is actually short and informative.
- steveklabnik
  
  Thanks!
  
  (The first link in the post is a link to the spec.)
olegkovalov

TIL: DID is not Docker in Docker
- ashikun
  
  TIL it could be read as that! I always heard that abbreviated to DinD (or, even more confusingly, dind). Not sure if a quirk of my workplace or a more general thing though!
  - mort
    
    I've definitely always considered Docker in Docker to be "dind", and read DID in the title here as Decentralized Identity :)
    
    alterae
    
    i cannot read it as anything but dissociative identity disorder, myself
    
    olegkovalov
    
    dissociative identity disorder
    
    Ok, now I read DID same way.
    
    steveklabnik
    
    Me too to be honest.
    
    thomas536
    
    Also not Direct inward dialing
    
    eyesinthefire
    
    Or dissociative identity disorder
    
    eminence32
    
    While that is true, it’s also the case that your PDS needs to use your keys to sign your posts
    
    Could you define "PDS" for those of us not using bluesky?
    
    scraps
    
    “personal data server”. It’s the origin server of your content, such as your posts.
    
    ubernostrum
    
    Rather than a single big database of everyone's posts, Bluesky/AT is based on each individual user having their own data repository, called a Personal Data Server or PDS. When using Bluesky, you can use a PDS provided by them, but you can also host your own PDS or use one provided by a third party, and you can transparently migrate between PDSes over the course of your account history. It is not the same as an "instance" in Mastodon (there is no clean one-to-one mapping of AT concepts to ActivityPub concepts).