Erlend Sogge Heggen
I think this is the most important (WIP) Fediverse Enhancement Proposal of this year for the #ActivityPub protocol:
FEP-7952: Roadmap for Actor and Object Portability — by @by_caballero and @dmitri
It ties a lot of elementary building blocks for #nomadicidentity neatly together, most succinctly summed up by one particularly magic feature:
Bring-your-own Actor ID! 🪪💫
Actor profiles can now be hosted separately from the instance (including as a static JSON object (…)
Erlend Sogge Heggen
(…) on a personal website), which in turn enables service providers to offer their users a “BYO (Bring Your Own) domain name” feature.
That’s really all I ever needed from the notion of a ‘single-user instance’. All I want to manage on my own is my identity, not a full AP server.
In this paradigm, someone’s tiny personal website could also be their Actor-ID Provider, and nothing more. That ID could in turn be used to as a (reasonably nomadic) account on any FEP-7952 compatible instance.
Erlend Sogge Heggen
From @by_caballero:
> the idea is to detach the Actor object (which could be operated by a microserver that consumes almost zero resources, and basically just operates a big redirect table like a link-shortener) from the Service Provider, to be a little more like
> email (in the use case where you point a domain that you own and configure at protonmail or mailgun or some other provider)
> or SMS service (in that regulation enables you to keep your number when you switch phone co’s).
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