At some point in the past, many services were starting to roll out OpenID, which was exactly that. Facebook and Twitter ended up winning that battle though - the UI/UX most people used for OpenID was poor, and without the two biggest providers buying in, it fizzled out
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Nowadays the more promising direction is with self-sovereign identity via the W3C's DID spec, but it will still need to overcome both of those barriers to get off the ground. Maybe this time around, enough people care about the topic that it might just work...
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Please enlighten me, what is a URN?
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Federation is out of the question. All of the platforms you mentioned are commercial and benefit from lock-in.
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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this is one of the most depressing & distressing aspects of software: these companies that don't comply with basic web axiomatics, denying the world the ability to talk about & cite the things in their world. https://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Axioms.html …
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it's an anti-Enlightenment disease, fallen beyond measure & demands disobedience against this anti-human unspeakability.
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