Now, having said that, even though a DID is a simple idea — you can use them in complex systems, but — the concept of a DID is simple ...
Turn an ID (identifier) into a URI.
Sometimes when I talk to other developers and the topic of a DID comes up — I get the feeling they are making them out to be more complex than they really are
They are just a way to turn an ID (identifier) into a URI
There are certain technologies that expect URIs — and if you want to use your ID with it, you need to turn it into a URI
As a side note — the Fediverse turns Fediverse IDs into URIs by turning them into acct-URIs (rather than DIDs)
Are there any decentralized DIDs that are in wide usage.
(Let's define "wide" as being at least one million (1,000,000) active users.)
...
(So, web-did and plc-did don't count.)
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Is DID-Web (did:web) actually a DID?
(DID = decentralized ID.)
Internet domain names are NOT decentralized. They are centralized.
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I have been looking at the #BlueSky #ATProtocol — and AFAICT it is still a work in progress.
Those behind it want it to be decentralized. But it isn't decentralized yet.
One (current) point of centralization with BlueSky is how their #DecentralizedIdentifier ( #DID ) works:
https://atproto.com/specs/did-plc
(The oddly named "DID Placeholder".)
Key DID Method Specification
Finished setting up a development environment for an ActivityPub implementation with Decentralized Identifier (DID) support.
Everything seems to be routable from the web and interoperable with the Fediverse, teated with my Mastodon instance.
Backend logic with persistence layer is currently missing, i.e., under development.
Lets see where the journey bring us!
#ActivityPub #DecentralizedIdentifier #Fediverse #ProofOfConcept
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