Ideas for How ActivityPub Might Solve this Problem that BlueSky Folks Point Out? https://www.timothychambers.net/2024/03/29/ideas-for-how.html
@tchambers when coding activitypub for my site I learned that the actor (webfinger+actor+pub/priv keys) can be in a different domain than the inbox endpoint.
Portability of actor is as today technically posible then, you need to own a domain and be completely disconnected to where the inbox (which handles follows, replies, etc.) is hosted, in theory decentralized. The posts already live federated.
@mapache Interesting....
@mapache @tchambers yeah, seconded. Cryptographic portable identities make the whole system much more complicated and fragile. Webfinger can connect any id to any server account right now and can be a simple static file if needed. Disconnecting your user domain from the server your account runs on is a easy first step.
Plan B, just as an MX DNS entry points to the mail server that handles your domain, you could also use a SRV entry to point to a Activitypub server.
@spaetz @tchambers we are not far away from that in the tech/code/implementation side.
The backend (inbox + cache + relay) which is now the instances could easily scale and be distributed. You could theoretically have a instances-market.
And yes, the mail DNS example is on point.
@tchambers @mapache Case in point, when you look up sebastian@sspaeth.de now, my webfinger should point to the @spaetz account as the one to be used. Now, if the mastodon server were able to allow me to use the sebastian@sspaeth.de handle, I could move my stuff to any server that allows to do that.