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@stack that's right, with that idea every "social" or "id" server owner would run the same algorithm to display the same hash, (opt in per user), so as to not leak the underlying certificate fingerprint.
A malicious or hacked server could lie, so it's not e2e identification proof, but "if you trust the server". I think a malicious or hacked server gets you enough other problems that them forging ids is not super important by itself.
Apr 30 · 13 days ago
openid for gemini — i believe that activity pub is an overkill for the problem it is trying to solve. we have rss/atom/yyyy-mm-dd for fetching news. rss solves the problem of fetching new content, following someone. openid solves the problem of replying/commenting/reacting as someoe. in a sense, we don't need a social network because internet is already one. internet with rss and openid covers essential features of what we call a social network. so let's adapt or design something like...