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Can we make federation less dependent on domain names?
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this post was submitted on 26 Jan 2026
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Yes, domain names can be replaced with cryptographic identifiers: https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/src/branch/main/fep/ef61/fep-ef61.md
How interesting. Isn't the
did:system also what AT Protocol (Bluesky) uses? ๐That's correct.
did:prefix is used to denote cryptographic identifiers, in theory one could even take adid:plcidentifier from Bluesky and then use it as identity for an ActivityPub application:https://github.com/bluesky-social/atproto/pull/3943
DIDs aren't unique to Bluesky
Didn't mean it was. Just mentioned it as it was the most common example I knew. But thanks for the link! Reading it now.
Thanks. This is a little complicated to wrap my head around. Is this already implemented and we just have to toggle it, or is this something that needs a special/unreleased version of lemmy in order to activate?
I doubt that it will be implemented in Lemmy, the application architecture needs to be different in order to support cryptographic identities.
But there are other implementations (they are listed near the end of the document).