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awesome! any open source repos we can follow? i would love to tinker with replicating this

Big time weird to see a platform dev congratulate other platforms for building their own semi-competing platform. Of course I welcome and celebrate it.

is it competing? The more adoption of the AT Protocol there is, the better and more sustainable Bluesky as *one* AT Protocol project becomes.

yeah its like the least weird thing, it's proof that the system works

People keep treating the bluesky team as a platform team when they’re a protocol team that ended up having to run a platform

Watching @basisvr.org navigate this particular problem has been interesting (which is why the word platform is verboten when talking about it heh)

Is anyone doing anything with DID:WEB or is the network mainly PLC? It's interesting to see an implementation; we looked at it for the COVID certs (with W3C:VC) but it was technically lacking for that use case. For EUDI wallets too IMHO but that is solvable.

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did:web is still supported but it does have some technical challenges that make we wonder if it needs an upgrade

webvh support? Like, being able to spin up an alt plc and trust that for your identity feels like a reasonable option and that is basically what webvh is.

Yeah uh, there’s a bunch of people who’ve had their did:web disappear from the Bluesky AppView (not from moderation). Ex: my project account pdsls.dev/at://did:web... It happened after I tried to move it to a new PDS (I made sure to include the old signing keys)

I'm trying to understand how you ensure the full chain-of-trust with DID web; for the EU-DCC we shipped national certs with our apps and provided the trustlists as signed packages. Then a different group tracked all similar lists from other countries. Also validated the connection certs (TLS).

Is this the point of the AT protocol?

Cool cool cool. How do I follow Link over there? They didn't stupidly ban him.

You just have to use Blacksky. His account should show up there

Ah.... See, I thought this was less of a walled garden in that other instances (like Blacksky) could be brought up and users of Bluesky could I dunno... Elect to follow people from their Bluesky account. Sort of like Mastodon but less chaotically done...