Emelia 👸🏻

I'm super hyped to announce that Bluesky Socal PBC has given me a grant to work on the Federated Credential Management (or FedCM) standards to make them really work for all decentralized web applications.

This is why I stepped up to be an Invited Expert with the W3C FedID Working Group earlier in the year. The missing part at that time was "how do I fund this work?" so I'm super happy that Bluesky Social PBC really came through with a grant to fund this work.

A really interesting thing that Bluesky Social PBC did here was they could have said "just make this work for AT Protocol" but instead they said "make this work for the entire decentralized web", and the contract explicitly states I should be working with the IndieAuth, Solid and other communities interested in federated and decentralized identity to make this happen.

https://decentralizing-fedcm.leaflet.pub/3mggfw4gdx22w

Working to Decentralize FedCM - Decentralizing FedCM

Bluesky Social PBC have given a grant to Emelia Smith, an Invited Expert with the FedID Working Group, to work on FedCM with the goal of making FedCM really work for the decentralized web.

Mar 9 at 6:40pmWeb
Show threadStefan BohacekMar 9
@thisismissem Congratulations!!
Show threadJulian FietkauMar 9
@thisismissem That's great, congrats! 🙂
Show threadprince lucijaMar 9
@thisismissem amazing! congrats and really good to hear they are investing in the whole decentralized web.
Show threadjon rMar 9
@thisismissem
Wonderful news! Esp. after your reports of intermittent uncertainty during the last years. I wish you well-paced and well-supported progress.
Show threadJeffMar 9
@thisismissem Very happy to hear this, congrats Emelia! 🎉
Show threadJoe OrtizMar 9

@thisismissem One positive news today to root for.

Major congrats!

Show threadVincent TunruMar 9
@thisismissem Well, you were right, I am indeed very happy to hear this 😀 Both for the decentralised web, and for you — congratulations!
Show threaddansupMar 9
@thisismissem Amazing news, congrats!
Show threadcthos 🐱Mar 9
@thisismissem Oh hey that's awesome!
Show threadZwifiMar 10
@thisismissem congrats!
Show threadEmelia 👸🏻Mar 10
@Zwifi thanks, are you still involved in Solid things? I haven't really been keeping up since leaving Inrupt
Show threadZwifiMar 10
@thisismissem absolutely, still at inrupt, still on Solid, although I don't have as much free time as I'd like to dedicate to side-projects, but that will come back as the children are growing up ^^
Show threadVincent TunruMar 10
@Zwifi @thisismissem Just a decade and a half or so to go 😛
Show threadEmelia 👸🏻Mar 10
@Zwifi oh! I thought Inrupt ditched solid? Maybe we should catch up?
Show threaddjangoMar 10
@thisismissem congrats!
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@thisismissem

Congratulations!

Show threadmatdevdugMar 10
@thisismissem Congratulations! Good luck.
Show threadwojtekMar 10

@thisismissem congrats!

wasn't there Firefox Persona thingy ages ago where you were "signing with firefox"?

I'm mildly annoyed that quite ofthen three is "sign in" displayed prominently and option to register with email burried somewhere below (not to mention it always defaults to 2-3 bigtech providers :/)

Show threadEmelia 👸🏻Mar 10
@wojtek yeah, there was, but in general, this is more a "UX guidance for website implementers" challenge. We still have many websites auto-prompting for like location services.
Show threadslampMar 10
@thisismissem I'm super happy for you and for the Fediverse! You can be proud ! I'm sure you'll deliver a huge amount of work and a perfect credential management 🤩