Post #2175104

I am spending most of my time on BlueSky right now. They seem to have got decentralization more right than Mastodon has to date. There is really no reason why the two systems need to be separate. @hallam is an identifier that is controlled by infosec.exchange rather than me. If Mastodon supported use of the BlueSky handle system, I could be @phill.hallambaker.com in both places, post to both under the same handle, interact with both. Maybe merging with BlueSky doesn't seem very appealing right now. But one big advantage of their handle system over the Mastodon approach is I can completely control my identity in that forum where here I can't. And I can use my BlueSky identity outside BlueSky. So I now have a private forums scheme that people can post at using the same account they use with BlueSky. There are some rough edges but we could knock them off if we got a group of people together to discuss how to get from where we are today to where we really want to be. Right now, I can only authenticate to my BlueSky account using the BlueSky OAUTH server. Where I want to get to is I can pick my own authentication server and use that to log in anywhere.