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		johnecheck 6 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Blacksky grew to millions of users without spendin... did:web (DNS) is just one option for identity. did:plc is what you want, it's not reliant on ICANN or BlueSky. Any PDS should be able to resolve a did:web or did:plc. https://atproto.com/specs/did

ItsHarper 6 months ago [–]

did:plc is currently centralized, it's 100% reliant on Bluesky. Lookups have to be done at https://plc.directory/

johnecheck 6 months ago | [–]

Apologies, I was mistaken. I'd confused the self-certifying bit with decentralization. did:plc relies on trusting a central server to accept all valid events and not allow users to rewrite their history.

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