I was reading @
Mike Masnick ✅'s article called
Some (Slightly Biased) Thoughts On The State Of Decentralized Social Media, and I realized something. @
Mike Masnick mentioned decentralized IDs (DIDs) as one of the interesting technologies.
Zot Protocol already has nomadic identity, which is a different way to achieve a similar result. And people are working to add nomadic identity to ActivityPub, which includes support for DIDs.
If successful, that means that AT Protocol, ActivityPub, and Zot Protocol will all have a form of nomadic identity or portable identity. It would be interesting to see if that could work cross-platform and cross-protocol, especially when bridging becomes more prominent thanks to @
Bridgy Fed and Friendica's support for both ActivityPub and AT Protocol.
The first step would be recognizing aliases (or clones, as they are called in Hubzilla). Cross-platform and cross-protocol syncing of clones could come later. But it would be nice if other platforms and protocols could recognize aliases and treat them as the same channel instead of separate channels.
There is a lot of talk about which protocol is better, but there are actually a lot of opportunities for each protocol to collaborate and interoperate.
