I have been exploring ways to increase connectivity and overall audience for the fediverse, and one way I have been considering is developing ways of linking fediverse accounts to the indieweb.
The way I am picturing this would work would require an identity layer that creates an umbrella identity for fediverse accounts, and links them to an indieweb url as a user’s primary identity. This could be done using a DID system that has a series of methods that links these accounts to the site as the overarching identity. This could facilitate the development of new platforms that serve as a “universal translator” across fediverse accounts, bluesky accounts, etc, while also pointing to a users website as their primary profile, which could serve as everything from personal Myspace style websites to band/artist/business websites/portfolios. This could be a way for users to seamlessly browse between the indieweb and the fediverse, and could allow for easy syndication of content across platforms, in a more comprehensive way than current tools allow.
Could this work, and what sorts of issues might it present in terms of presenting a coherent link between platforms?
When you say linking identity, what do you mean? Validating that different accounts on different services belong to the same person, or linking for authentication, or something else?
For the former something like Mastodon’s verified profile fields (e.g. homepage) could be used - if one uses the same verified field across services, it shows that they all belong to the same person.