Post #3062224

2026-02-11 07:33 UTC

@be_far@social.treehouse.systems @lina@vt.social I assume it might be more like Matrix, where your "home" server is responsible for your identity *and* your configuration? (Or sort of like connecting to an IRC bouncer.) At least that's my understanding of identity federation, i.e. many identity/account servers but you still live on a specific one – not necessarily "my identity is based on my id_ecdsa.key".

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@lina@vt.social 2026-02-11 07:43

@be_far@social.treehouse.systems @grawity@social.treehouse.systems Yes, that's the idea. Your home server is your identity root and knows where you have logged in with that identity. The home server could also proxy to other servers, coalesce notifications, cache, etc. This is not federation, it's just more like an IRC bouncer as you say. It would be driven by practical needs of mobile clients etc. But the remote servers are still the sole source of truth for their spaces, handle all space moderation, etc. You'd still want some sort of recovery/backup/portability system so that if your home server goes away you can say "wait, I'm this identity" to servers you were in and recover. There's various ways this could work, for example simply using an email, or a backed up private key. But this (with the complexities it brings to UX) would be a special case. It should be *possible* to survive a home server failure and not lose all your remote accounts, but this mechanism shouldn't be what's needed for normal login.

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