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Re: "Is there a SmallWeb service for identity? What's the..."
Of course, it should be optional. That way, you can preserve privacy, as well avoiding to add complexity to implementations that do not want it. (Furthermore, you can have multiple shared profiles in case you do not want only one.)
Another note, is that sometimes a URL can be used to refer to a user ID on some service, but other times (e.g. MUD) a URL cannot be used.
Nov 10 · 5 weeks ago
💀 requiem · Nov 18 at 11:59:
finger protocol was basically invented for "identity" and similar things. try:
$ finger rqm@tilde.institue
to see my finger message.
There used to be a page called "about.me" which I liked -- basically a page where you could aggregate stuff about yourself. I'm thinking of launching something similar for Gemini. Just buying domains... :)
Is there a SmallWeb service for identity? What's the smallest viable protocol? I'm thinking if I use the same cert on two sites, and I voluntarily publish two triples (username/site/cert) to an identity service, then it should be possible. If someone knows me on Site1 and they log in to Site2 they could find out my user name on Site2. I can think of a couple of twists to keep people from just harvesting all the data willy nilly. Is there someone like that already? Or a decent proposal?