Source code for Twitter's decentralized open-source 'Bluesky' social network has been released and is available on GitHub. It's a "data protocol which we've termed ADX: the Authenticated Data eXperiment. The 'X' stands for 'experiment' while the project lives in an early exploratory state" and developers are warned "please do not try to build anything with this!" The system is based on decentralized identifiers (DID) which the codebase says is "the canoncial, unchanging identifier for a user." One of the recent changes removes a reference to "user IDs at a low cost to users" leaving open the question of the nature and makeup of "the (currently-unnamed) DID Consortium." To me, the real question is how DID will be integrated with ActivityPub, a concept explored here.
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