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this post was submitted on 12 Jul 2023
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Yep. It's an issue that comes up again and again. "nomadic identity" is the name commonly given to it. Search or ask around and you may find conversations about it. It is probably the single most objectively lacking aspect of the fediverse given how often people independently realise it.
This fediverse at least. AT Protocol, used for bluesky, supports nomadic identity. Instead of accounts being @user@domain.tld, they attach your domain / home instance / whatever, to a DID. You can read more about it in their various spec pages but here's the one for DIDs.
Well, Hubzilla / Streams, using Zot, which can federate over activity pub also have nomadic identity apparently, while I've read ActivityPub authors say that nomadic identity could be done on it but that no one has put the work in ... so it's not so clean cut as that.
Also ... I don't think BlueSky can be called a "fediverse" yet until decentralisation is shown to work well let alone until they even allow it and open signups. However much promise their tech/protocol has they, at the moment, are rather behind in terms of growth and scale.