- Yeah, this is definitely something that I'm finding to be a problem overall with ActivityPub, though, interestingly, some AP authors are arguing that we shouldn't actually have handles (yes, really), rather than just fixing how we do handles to make actual sense. icy.leaflet.pub/3m47cll72hs2...
- Why in the world would a social media protocol not have handles??? Who is arguing this? (I'm genuinely interested in who is arguing that and why.) Also curious, does Bluesky hardcode the handle into the mention within a skeet or does it include an ID to the user account?
- The references to everything use your DID (which can't change) and the handle is pretty much only for display purposes, not so much resolution. (you can resolve a handle to a DID, but when transmitting data you always use the DID and not the handle)
- which is bad design as it makes switching from PLC to WEB or something else much harder and breaking
- Please do say what stable identifier you'd use instead, because without an alternative, this statement is pointless
- A globally unique ID generated with enough factors (initial service / PDS name, timestamp, name..) to be reliably unique
- what do you think a DID is?
- That isn't what the discussion is about. It's that Bluesky's links are designed in a stupid way where changing the DID method breaks virtually everything, and the PLC DID method is deliberately centralised and in Bluesky's handsOct 28, 2025 17:16
- oh and you cant change the DID method even if you wanted for all I know, talk about vendor lock in
