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.

@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 :/)

@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.