This requires manually enabling every additional provider. This doesn’t work if some individuals or smaller collectives wanna run their own identity providers, numbering in the thousands.

See what CIMD solves for. “Innately centralized” was probably a poor choice of words, but OIDC not a good fit for an open social web with decentralized identities and a plethora of small identity providers that cannot be known upfront.

What you’re missing is that OIDC is innately centralized and FedCM, in particular thanks to this work, isn’t.

This is all building on or complementing the same underlying OAuth standards, like the CIMD spec that Emelia originally intended for adoption into Mastodon/ActivityPub to set the stage for decentralized OAuth, but it was never brought in. The AT protocol on the other hand adopted it into their decentralized oauth-atproto standard, which is on track to become a protocol-agnostic oauth-dweb standard.

Anyone who cares about decentralized software should be dissatisfied with how OIDC works. If you wanna use your primary fediverse account to log into other fedi apps, this work is for you.

That was the update I needed today, thank you kind Internet stranger.

Here’s a piece I wrote to explain my apprehensive stance on AI to friends and colleagues: https://blog.erlend.sh/non-consensual-technology

“Do you think billionaires should exist?”

This remains the easiest way for me to suss out someone’s fundamental politics without getting lost in left/right liberal/conservative binaries.

Excellent decision! The simplest way to enforce this would be to require all comic strip submissions to include a source link.

Good question; that would qualify for me, yeh!

Yes, there’s steward-ownership and post-growth entrepreneurship:

• https://www.ted.com/talks/armin_steuernagel_transforming_ownership_to_create_a_better_economy
• https://purpose-economy.org/en/whats-steward-ownership/
• https://www.ted.com/talks/melanie_rieback_post_growth_entrepreneurship
• https://nonprofit.ventures/

As of today it’s basically an open alternative to linktree. Read our blog posts for more about the big picture plans.

I suggested the official adoption of Photon a year ago. Xylight was tentatively on board with it.

Even more important though is this change which would allow an alternative frontend to be used as a default, instead of having to be relegated to a sub-domain.

Haha exactly!

Would love to hear about it when it’s out!

That sounds really interesting! We’re building an OIDC server for indies with Weird – please feel free to come by and chat with us: https://blog.muni.town/muni-town/

I’m aware of this library for it: https://github.com/kensanata/mastodon-archive

Dunno about any easy button-click service for it though, which is why we’re building it into Weird, which is like a CMS for your digital identity.

Exactly!

It’s not about Totalizing Enforcement. What it changes is the cultural norm. Not right away but over time.

An age limit on alcohol never stopped anyone of any age to acquire alcohol, but it sets the societal bar for what’s acceptable. You don’t wanna be the parents that gave your kids alcoholic beverages at 13.

It’s always a little jarring how everyone very readily believes that the Scandinavian countries are the happiest in the world, but won’t believe that the incremental policy changes we implement here have any effect 🤷‍♂️

Appreciate the review! I’ve forwarded it to the dev :)

His point is there is no one protocol for the social web. The (open) social web is built on a pluriverse of protocols, like rss, email, irc, matrix, activitypub, atproto…

Studies have identified some of the main sources of microplastics as:

• plastic-coated fertilisers
• plastic film used as mulch in agriculture

WTF?

• plastics recycling.

Uuuuh…

One thing that seems to go unappreciated in the comments is the simplicity of this interop proposal: It is essentially about enabling quote-posting of link-aggregator(Groups) posts.

Bluesky + Frontpage will work this way, and I believe it’ll work exceedingly well. If the ap-net corner of the fediverse isn’t interested in this kind of interop, fair enough. To me however the promise of seamless interop between my social apps was what brought me to the fediverse, so that’s the version of the fediverse I will pursue.