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Mike Macgirvin 🖥️ said:
What it would take is for a few people to learn about and explore the vast fediverse that exists outside Mastodon and lift a finger to help out.
I've been thinking about this a lot, and I have ideas on what we can do to spread the word about the great technologies we have available.
We need documentation. We need websites dedicated to Nomadic Identity, Nomad Protocol, and OpenWebAuth. And we need some flagship instances with an intuitive interface that new users can adapt to quickly.
We also need some way to coordinate as a community. I think we have a lot of people who want to contribute, but who have limited skills and/or simply don't know what is needed. Or if they do know what is needed, they can't find the documentation needed to learn how everything works.
I think we can do everything that is needed for Hubzilla and Nomadic Identity and OpenWebAuth to succeed. We just have to get organized and coordinate with people outside of the Hubzilla community.
Here is Mike's full post:
Hubzilla (was called 'redmatrix' at the time) brought nomadic identity to the fediverse in 2012. It's still here and nomadic identity still works, though it pre-dates W3C DIDs by a number of years. There also was no AT protocol or Mastodon or ActivityPub back then. Streams, forte, mitra, and probably a few others have working implementations of portable identities using DIDs over ActivityPub today. All of these could still use a bit more work, but they all inter-operate reasonably well at this point.
In the dozen years I've been working on this, the number of people across the entire planet that have been willing to help has been around 3-4. What it would take is for a few people to learn about and explore the vast fediverse that exists outside Mastodon and lift a finger to help out.
