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Oh, Zot! Nomadic Identity is Coming to ActivityPub (wedistribute.org)
submitted 7 months ago by deadsuperhero@lemmy.ml to c/fediverse@lemmy.ml
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Mike Macgirvin, the long-time developer that brought us Friendica, Hubzilla, Streams, and the Zot protocol, is bringing his most powerful concept to the rest of the Fediverse: Nomadic Identity.

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[โ€“] 0x1C3B00DA@fedia.io 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

If you break that up you end up with only a few large and likely advertisement funded instances being able to survive.

I'm not saying I don't think instances should be able to use that model, only that I think that model should not be the dominant way of building a community on the fediverse. But I don't see why a user would be less attached to a community just because its hosted on a different server from them, especially on the threadiverse which is topic based and where users are most likely going to engage in multiple topics.

[โ€“] deadsuperhero@lemmy.ml 6 points 7 months ago

I think another way to look at it is that accounts are tightly coupled to instances, to the point of being a detriment. I've personally lost all of my data and had to start over from scratch 5 or 6 times due to servers suddenly going down over the years.

Groups are one way to abstract community functions up a level, and what's crazy is that Group Actors themselves could also have a similar thing. People have talked about merged cross-instance communities on Lemmy; this would be one way of enabling that.