Shirt took a stab at Mark Zuckerberg, to the delight of many.

I thought this was slightly funny.

Mark Zuckerberg is known these days for wearing t-shirts with Latin phrases on them, especially ones where he compares himself to Julius Caesar.

Bluesky made a shirt in the same style, but theirs says “a world without Caesars” in Latin.

  • cabbage@piefed.socialEnglish
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    12 days ago

    I guess that’s fair, as a way to make users identifiable with the same user name all over the internet, no matter which platform they are on.

    When people sign in using bluesky on https://frontpage.fyi/, they are still bluesky accounts? Or does the account somehow transform into something that exists between both sites?

    Is there any real innovation here beyond a combination of “sign in with x service” and having your domain appear as your user name?

      • cabbage@piefed.socialEnglish
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        12 days ago

        Yeah, they will use their domains, and they can sign in with Bluesky. So it is the same account to a pretty significant degree. What I’m wondering is if the Frontpage user would break if Bsky.app disappeared, or if the user could still sign in as the identity is somehow truly decentralized.

        As for domains as user names, I guess ActivityPub could achieve something by allowing users to have verified websites (mastodon style) appear as their user names. I don’t really see what would have to change on a protocol level to make this possible.

        • Sl00k@programming.devEnglish
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          12 days ago

          Identity is decentralized through the protocol so they’d be fine. Bluesky at the end of the day is just app view that sits on top of the protocol so it can disappear and everything will continue operating as long as there’s a relay online.

          • cabbage@piefed.socialEnglish
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            12 days ago

            But on frontpage.fyi, if you want to sign up, you have to sign up through Bluesky. They direct you to bsky.app to create your account.

            I just don’t see how this is a real functional example of a portable account. Maybe it is not supposed to be - if so, is the decentralized nature of accounts demonstrated anywhere in a practical way?

            I struggle to understand things I cannot see.

            • Sl00k@programming.devEnglish
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              20 hours ago

              I know this convo was 2 weeks ago, but they published a great article that includes how Identify is handled that answers our questions.

              https://atproto.com/articles/atproto-ethos

              Effectively identify is as the PDS level. So if Bluesky goes down and your account were through Bluesky you’d lose your identity ?*

              If your account is held through another platform like Spark or your own self hosted PDS your identity would remain live.

              *My question that sparked from this is if Bluesky went down and you’re already logged into a second platform, when you log into that second platform does it duplicate your DID? I’m assuming not and you’d still lose it because logins are through OIDC and the keys still exist on Bluesky.

              Regardless the true path to decentralization should be everyone hosting their own identity on their own PDS w/ identity but that might be a longshot. The path to decentralization is effectively allowed but will people take advantage of it?