Gregory's Server@mackuba
As in from the username alone.
Handle -> DID -> PLC server -> PDS
where PLC Server isbthe "someone has a relatively complete picture of the whole network" IDK their plans with PLC but its an even stronger point of centralization
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@mackuba  @jonny more than that, I think there was like 5 did:web's last time I checked  |
@jonny Yeah, so that is doable and actually should be a fairly standard thing for API clients to do, e.g. if they want to load raw data from the origin PDS, or have a login form and want to know what PDS to log into.
I wrote a pseudo-Ruby overview of the algorithm here: https://gist.github.com/mackuba/a6c2a922be8895c2b82c93e54272b86d, and an initial version of a library that does it here: https://github.com/mackuba/didkit/blob/master/lib/didkit/did.rb (I'm not using it yet because right now you can still get away with just calling bsky.social which proxies to actual PDSes).
@jonny Yeah, so that is doable and actually should be a fairly standard thing for API clients to do, e.g. if they want to load raw data from the origin PDS, or have a login form and want to know what PDS to log into.
I wrote a pseudo-Ruby overview of the algorithm here: https://gist.github.com/mackuba/a6c2a922be8895c2b82c93e54272b86d, and an initial version of a library that does it here: https://github.com/mackuba/didkit/blob/master/lib/didkit/did.rb (I'm not using it yet because right now you can...