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> How is distributed identity solved in the long term? Same way email handles it -- through the use of the domain name system. You'd expect that an a federated
by riffic 6y ago
> How is distributed identity solved in the long term?
Same way email handles it -- through the use of the domain name system. You'd expect that an a federated server with the address "https://mastodon.mit.edu/ https://mastodon.mit.edu/" would consist of those with a tie to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (faculty or students). Your identity is provided by the system you are a member of and handled by your specific system administrator.
- Jasper_ 6y agoThat doesn't solve the spam problem, though? The issue from spam is that bad actors can sign up for any number of free-standing servers, without being blocked from the service as a whole. Blocking whole servers isn't the solution; that just leads to a weird scenario where you can't reach some of your contacts because they lucked out and picked the wrong server when signing up.
- riffic 6y agothere's a lot of talk about object capabilities as a model to solve for this in the AP space. A lot of it goes over my head so I can't really go into details on it but there are some conference talks available where this is a topic. background info: https://github.com/WebOfTrustInfo/rwot9-prague/blob/master/topics-and-advance-readings/ap-unwanted-messages.md https://github.com/WebOfTrustInfo/rwot9-prague/blob/master/t... https://gitlab.com/spritely/ocappub https://gitlab.com/spritely/ocappub