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This feels like disinformation to me. Bluesky uses did:plc which is highly centralized I’d love to be proven wrong, because the world desperately needs a decentralized identity system I’m really hoping that Bluesky sees the light and allows users to actually own their keys

But.. who owns the identity? Bluesky does, because they can re-key people. It's definitely an admirable intent to decentralize one day. But clearly people are thinking Bluesky already offers sovereign identities. Hence the "disinformation"

disinformation? c'mon. You've made two separate inaccurate comments in your response, which @bmann.ca corrected. Valid critique is welcomed, but calling it disinformation then following up with factually incorrect info is just a waste of everyone's time.

I'd LOVE to be wrong on this. I'm a huge supporter of any sovereign/decentralized identity system for the web. In my first post I accidentally said that users don't "own their keys" on bksy. I meant to say they don't own their identity, because you claimed that bsky has decentralized ID

The worst part is that Bluesky pretends that you get a sovereign ID when you add your own domain, but it is just a proxy to the centralized did:plc No wonder people are confused!

The ICANN-governed DNS already exists- already distributed across every nation. To me it feels like this whole mess could have been avoided if bsky used did:web identities (or better, did:dns) The auditing+tamper-resistance features of the ledger can be implemented in a decentralized way, right?!

No they can’t rekey people. But @boscolo.co who you thought was doing misinformation can fight his own battles.