17,517
edits
Nomadic identity/en: Difference between revisions
m
Text replacement - "Internal Link" to "Internal link"
m (Text replacement - "Internal Link" to "Internal link") |
m (Text replacement - "Internal Link" to "Internal link") |
||
| Line 4: | Line 4: | ||
== History == | == History == | ||
Nomadic identity was invented in 2011 by Mike Macgirvin. The year before, he had released a Facebook competitor named Mistpark, meanwhile renamed to {{Internal | Nomadic identity was invented in 2011 by Mike Macgirvin. The year before, he had released a Facebook competitor named Mistpark, meanwhile renamed to {{Internal link |target=What is Friendica? |link-name=Friendika}}. But decentralisation and community-run public nodes, as instances are called on Friendica, had started showing a side-effect, namely users losing their online identities and all their data whenever a node shut down. This would sometimes happen without announcement. | ||
{{Internal | {{Internal link |target=Moving instances |link-name=Moving instances}} was implemented as far as that was possible so that people could relocate to elsewhere when the shutdown of their home node had been announced, but this would be of no help in the case of a sudden shutdown. Even full account backups weren't a remedy if they weren't made in the first place. | ||
Macgirvin decided that the only way to secure people's online identity was for it to exist on multiple independent servers. Thus, the idea of nomadic identity was born. However, this was impossible to implement on Friendika with its {{Internal link |target=DFRN |link-name=DFRN}} protocol. So Macgirvin started designing a whole new protocol named {{Internal link |target=Zot and Nomad |link-name=Zot}}. In 2012, he handed the development of what was now known as Friendica over to the community and forked it into what would become {{Internal link |target=What is the Red Matrix? |link-name=the Red Matrix}} and, in 2015, evolve into Hubzilla. | Macgirvin decided that the only way to secure people's online identity was for it to exist on multiple independent servers. Thus, the idea of nomadic identity was born. However, this was impossible to implement on Friendika with its {{Internal link |target=DFRN |link-name=DFRN}} protocol. So Macgirvin started designing a whole new protocol named {{Internal link |target=Zot and Nomad |link-name=Zot}}. In 2012, he handed the development of what was now known as Friendica over to the community and forked it into what would become {{Internal link |target=What is the Red Matrix? |link-name=the Red Matrix}} and, in 2015, evolve into Hubzilla. | ||
| Line 16: | Line 16: | ||
=== Move === | === Move === | ||
One advantage of nomadic identity is that it is probably the best existing way of moving your identity from one server to another. Unlike {{Internal | One advantage of nomadic identity is that it is probably the best existing way of moving your identity from one server to another. Unlike {{Internal link |target=What are Fediverse projects? |link-name=projects}} based on ActivityPub, it doesn't create a dumb copy or partial copy of your account on another server and leave the original behind as a usually dead account. It actually ''moves'' the content without leaving anything behind, and it moves ''all'' the content. | ||
So let's suppose alice@foo.social wants to move to bar.social. The process goes like this: | So let's suppose alice@foo.social wants to move to bar.social. The process goes like this: | ||