Right now, your Lemmy account and all your content are tied to one server. Moving instances or having one shut down means losing your digital presence. Frankly, the server controls your online identity.

But what if you controlled your identity?

I've opened a discussion on the Lemmy dev GitHub about integrating Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs). Think of a DID as a permanent, global ID you own, independent of any server.

Why DIDs are a game-changer for Lemmy:

Real Account Portability: Move your entire account – posts, comments, followers – to any new instance seamlessly. Your identity travels with you.
More User Control: Your online presence becomes resilient, managed by an ID you control, not governed by a single server's policies.
Proven Tech: It works. Protocols like ATProto (Bluesky) successfully use DIDs for portable user identities.
Full Fediverse Compatibility: We can add DIDs to Lemmy while staying fully interoperable with Mastodon, Kbin, and all other ActivityPub platforms. No breaking changes, just a powerful upgrade.

This is a big step towards a more decentralized and user-controlled fediverse. If you're interested in more control over your digital self, check out the discussion:

[GitHub Issue: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/5942]

If you're on other ActivityPub platforms, consider pushing for similar solutions! The more platforms that adopt truly portable identity, the stronger the fediverse becomes.

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[–] muntedcrocodile@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

No thats the whole point of a DID. Its an existing standard that has been established to manage decentralised identity. Their exists multiple ways to handle it so a did is did:source:id where the source can be many different things blue-sky uses a group of trusted identity server, but u can use a selhosted file, the blocckchain all sorts of things. Hell u could even use bluesky u could have the same login for ATproto (bluesky) and activpub (lemmy)

[–] SpookyMulder@twun.io 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The way this comment is written doesn't sound anything like the OP or the GitHub issue. Different tone, different dialect/spelling... lot of linguistic red flags. Not that I'm judging either way, it's just suspicious how vastly different they are.

[–] Jumuta@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

yeah it has the telltale tone and structure of a tool that a lot of us hate yk, reply seems to be human though?

[–] muntedcrocodile@lemmy.world -3 points 1 week ago

im lazy i used llm to write issue and post.

[–] Jumuta@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

ah yeah that makes sense