@
Fabrice Desré @
TuxPhones :linux: Ackchually...
The AT protocol has yet to prove that its concept of portable identity works.
In the meantime, @
silverpill (creator and maintainer of
Mitra) has been working with @
Mike Macgirvin 
(creator of a family tree of almost a dozen Fediverse server applications over a decade and a half, designer of two Fediverse protocols and inventor of
nomadic identity as early as 2012) to implement nomadic identity in ActivityPub since 2023. Previously, nomadic identity required the Zot or Nomad protocol. (Oh, and yes, it actually works, and it's being daily-driven by many
Hubzilla and
(streams) users right now.)
In August, 2024, Mike launched
Forte, his most recent creation and
the first Fediverse server application to entirely rely upon ActivityPub for nomadic identity. Nomadic identity via ActivityPub has been reality ever since.
In March, 2025, Forte officially had its first stable release. So much about nomadic identity via ActivityPub being experimental. People are using it as their primary daily driver already.
Just because Mastodon doesn't have it, doesn't mean ActivityPub doesn't, or the Fediverse doesn't.
Unfortunately, I don't expect Mastodon to ever implement it. After all, the Mastodon devs have already practically rejected OpenWebAuth as well, another one of Mike's creations.
(This comment was brought to you by a nomadic Hubzilla channel with one clone.)
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