Its apparently already a solved issue in AT Protocol
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@theory I don't care what BlueSky does. The fediverse is built on top of ActivityPub. It only needs a decentralised ID solution, not changing the protocol to something developed by a corporation. Open communities and corporations have different goals. If they want to contribute, they should contribute to the fediverse, and not do "their own thing". There's a reason they don't do that, and the reason is they have their own goals and interests, and those are not necessarily the same as those of the community.
No, thank you. Not for me, please.
I have read way too much scifi to want anything to do with global identification systems. The US license system is perverse enough.
@VexCatalyst Take a minute to read what DIDs are. It's not centralized. It's not managed by one authority. A government, a local authority, an educative institution, a non-for-profit corporation, or someone you actually trust can act as registration authority. There's not one authority, in the same way there's no one email provider. You decide what you share, you decide what information is available. Right now, you have to provide information (at least your email address, but normally much more than that) every time you want to login to an instance, or be treated as a stranger.