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Is the Fediverse stalling? (lemmy.relayeasy.com)
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I'm genuinely interested in people thoughts about the Fediverse because here in the UK it has massively stalled in 2025, like a lot of things. I am seeing way less posts from UK people and way less interaction and general use in fact. Most seem to have stopped social media use to be fair, and I know a lot of that is to do with my age (old fart here, 56 laps round sun and counting) but the numbers game look poor from my point of view. Do we think the Fediverse has a future now after useage appears to be going downwards? Is it a UK thing? (well I know the UK is weird but hey)

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[–] muntedcrocodile@hilariouschaos.com 0 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Ahh I see what ur saying now. Yeah the actor id is hard as it needs to be an actual dereferenceable uri as actors need an inbox and outbox of activities.

I don't think u can maintain cross instance actor ids. The only issue I see with having multiple actor ids for the same user is that they will have their content and profile split across multiple instances.

I guess u could have a meta id that dereferences to all ur actor ids?

[–] rglullis@communick.news 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I guess u could have a meta id that dereferences to all ur actor ids?

Yes, that would be ATProto's did:plc system.

[–] muntedcrocodile@hilariouschaos.com 0 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Ahh I see I've never looked into how atproto works might need to look into it and sees if some of its systems can be adapted for Activpub. Thx for the info

[–] rglullis@communick.news 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

If you are keen on working on something like that, let me know. I've done some preliminary work to get a DID system that would work like did:plc but I got a bit stuck trying to use a decentralized database based on IPFS as the "ledger" mechanism.

[–] muntedcrocodile@hilariouschaos.com 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

U got a github in of or me to take a look? I'll defiantly look into it sounds interesting.

[–] rglullis@communick.news 2 points 3 days ago

Specific to the DID, I haven't published yet. But what I am doing is based on my Typescript SDK for ActivityPub, so you can follow that repo for updates.