The Fediverse Passport would be the central account for all users on the Fediverse.
How it would work
a. Upon signing up for the a platform on the Fediverse the user would be redirected to the “Create your Passport” You would create your unique username. Once signed up you would then have an account on every platform connected to the Fediverse.
b. If someone friends/follows you on one platform they would automatically follow you on all platforms. Insuring that communities and friends could stay connected across platforms.
c. The passport for the user would show your feed on all platforms and allow you to selected which platform you want to see your feed from, also allowing you to directly search your content so you could find a post for whatever reason you need.
d. For the subscriber it would show them your feed and allow them to easily find your content.
e. Tons of customization options including the ability to monetize and or set a subscription fee for the video, blogging, and other “arts” platforms.
Safe Guards
You would be allowed to set your privacy setting to, Public, Subscribers Only, Approve Subscribers, Mutual Friends only, Private (Requires link)
Benefit
Would allow stream less interaction across the whole Fediverse and really get it going. No more having to create a different account on each platform and now you can claim an identity and keep track of your communities, also each site would directly help “advertise” the others.
Decentralization is a feature - not a bug.
This isn’t centralization, it’s duplication.
You can’t have a full round robin of duplication. In order to have duplicates, you have to have one central original, of which all the rest are duplicates.
And that’s exactly the sort of thing the fediverse is intended to avoid.
Every instance is federated but ultimately separate. The accounts on those separate instances are necessarily also separate. There is no possible scheme by which those necessarily separate accounts can be consolidated that does not involve, at some point, some central authority to implement it and/or manage it.
And that’s exactly the sort of thing the fediverse is intended to avoid.
It’s not. Your passport account would be portable, just like any other account. I really don’t see what the problem is.
I like the concept, but personally I see the decentralised nature of the Fediverse as a benefit rather than a hindrance, and moving all identity functionality to a centralised system would create more problems than it solves.
Suddenly you’ll have a single point of failure for the entire Fediverse. A very appetising target for hackers and DDOS attacks.
An alternative that’s in the spirit of your idea would be to allow for auth delegation, i.e. if you sign in with an Activitypub ID rather than a plain username, redirect to that instance to sign in then redirect back to the instance you started from, auth token in hand.
The nice thing about this approach is it’s basically just OAuth 2. It’s familiar, simple to implement and built in to a lot of web frameworks already. The only extra step would be advertising the server’s auth URL via the nodeinfo endpoint, which is fairly trivial to do.
It’s like everyone forgot about open ID but also having accounts tied to the an instance is not the problem with good export and import. Communities are what we need to have abstraction on just like IRC if I go to @games i should see threads from all instances on the network. Just like everyone in an IRC network can talk in the same channel even though they connect on different IRC servers.
Piefed has multicommunities and agregated comment views
https://piefed.zip/post/100161
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A few options
- https://piefed.social/ - flagship instance
- https://piefed.zip/ - lemmy.zip team
- https://piefed.ca/ - lemmy.ca team
- https://feddit.online/
I am not quite sure how this works - where is my “passport” created? On a centralized platform? What if I want to have different accounts on different instances?
Ideally on a platform similar to Gmail in its decentralized nature but connected to the fediverse and accessable through the main fediverse website as well.
We could allow for duplicate username with a unique 10 digit code identifier allowing you to adjust your privacy settings for each platform.
Ideally on a platform similar to Gmail in its decentralized nature
Really? This is the key to understanding that you don’t even know what you’re talking about.
Who would manage this platform?
What would their business model be?
I like where your head’s at, but Mastodon’s system of verification seems much easier to me and doesn’t rely on a third party.
In theory the fediverse is not a monolith. We actually want for this to not work.
