Here’s an idea to make Lemmy even better: true account portability.
Right now, your Lemmy account and all your content are tied to one server. Moving instances or having one shut down means losing your digital presence. Frankly, the server controls your online identity.
But what if you controlled your identity?
I’ve opened a discussion on the Lemmy dev GitHub about integrating Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs). Think of a DID as a permanent, global ID you own, independent of any server.
Why DIDs are a game-changer for Lemmy:
- Real Account Portability: Move your entire account – posts, comments, followers – to any new instance seamlessly. Your identity travels with you.
- More User Control: Your online presence becomes resilient, managed by an ID you control, not governed by a single server’s policies.
- Proven Tech: It works. Protocols like ATProto (Bluesky) successfully use DIDs for portable user identities.
- Full Fediverse Compatibility: We can add DIDs to Lemmy while staying fully interoperable with Mastodon, Kbin, and all other ActivityPub platforms. No breaking changes, just a powerful upgrade.
This is a big step towards a more decentralized and user-controlled fediverse. If you’re interested in more control over your digital self, check out the discussion:
[GitHub Issue: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/5942]
If you’re on other ActivityPub platforms, consider pushing for similar solutions! The more platforms that adopt truly portable identity, the stronger the fediverse becomes.
I don’t like LLMs either, but I think its harsh to just close the discussion because someone used an LLM to rephrase someone’s initial idea…
I mean, sure, but LLM issues are currently plaguing open source projects. Curl, for example: https://gist.github.com/bagder/07f7581f6e3d78ef37dfbfc81fd1d1cd
If someone isn’t passionate about something enough to write their own request, why would the devs be passionate about implementing it?
Wow that was an amusing read, but not really comparable. Those are automated AI security findings, hallucinated partially. But this is an idea that was phrased out by using AI. He already showed the passion to submit and discuss his idea, what you are doing is valuing the devs passion more than someone that’s clearly not a dev submitting his idea … It sounds a little elitist to me.
The problem is the github issue has hallucinations and incorrect technical terminology. It really shouldn’t be used for this purpose, it’s pretty selfish to expect maintainers to consider something that you used LLM for in my opinion. I don’t think that’s elitist, is it really all that difficult to write a feature request on your own, especially if you’ve already done the hard part (the research)?
I did the research I looked at many different way to get the desired solution. I learned how ATProto works i looked into other services with did got an llm to put those ideas in the required format for the issue. Can you please point out the hallucinations in the issue so i can go and fix them
No. Asking other people to read (and now also to correct!) your LLM slop is extremely inconsiderate. Please don’t do that again.
Someone claimed it contained hallucinations. I read through the entire thing as well as doing all the research and understanding of the concept being talked about. If someone is claiming that their are issues I expect them to be able to prove that. I’m not asking for a fact checker I’m asking for someone to provide evidence of the thing they verbatim claimed. If u wanna tell me that my research showing the sky is blue is wrong I would appreciate u pointing out my error otherwise ur just making baseless claims.
I also don’t get it, as far as I understood you only used the LLM to have a spell checker on crack basically and not generate the idea or straight up technical solution so whats all the fuzz about?
That’s exactly what I did. Its essentially a translater from 3 pages of dotpoints and notes that would be incoherent to anyone but myself to normal English.