#decentralizedcontacts — Public Fediverse posts

I cleaned up this thread about decentralized contact book in a blog post here:
https://blogue.narf.ca/2023/09/federated-contact-book/

I'm very open to receiving feedback. What is preventing this from existing? This is a old problem; why don't we have a solution yet?

#decentralizedContacts #contactBook #p2p #localFirstApps #FederatedProfile #DecentralizedIdentity #FederatedIdentity #FederatedContactApp #ContactApps #OpenProtocol #privacy #email

For the federated contact book app that I'm proposing, it really should be better! When migrating to a different account, you would simply need to
1) In the old account, provide the link to the new one
2) In the new account, provide the link to the old one (for confirmation)

#AccountMigration #DecentralizedIdentity #decentralizedContacts

Another difficulty that come with decentralization: What if you want to migrate your profile, including all your address book, to a new host because your current host is problematic? It should be easy to migrate, without losing any of your friends or their data.

#decentralizedContacts #accountMigration #decentralizedIdentity

Your profile could even display when it was last validated next to each field, so that your friends know it's not outdated. It would be reassuring to know that I'm about to send an email to an address that was validated less then 6 months ago. At least I'll know I'm not about to talk to a void!

#UI #UX #federatedProfile #FederatedIdentity #decentralizedContacts

Do you know any existing services that do something like that? Am I trying to re-invent something that already exists?

#DecentralizedIdentity #decentralizedContacts #FederatedContactApp #FederatedIdentity #ContactApps

Of couse, it could also be provided by your existing email provider (but, again, maybe you don't want to trust #Microsoft or #Google with that! lol)

And because the quantity of data to store is small (a few text fields and maybe a couple profile photos), the cost for hosting would be quite low. Way less expensive than running a #Mastodon or #Email server.

#federatedidentity #decentralizedContacts

I wish there would be a way to share that workload. If each of us maintain our own contact infos and make sure to keep it up to date, just like we did on Facebook back in the days, then that's a lot less duplicated efforts!

In a group of 10 people, each of us as to maintain only 1 contact (our own). So that's 10 x 1 = 10. No duplicated efforts!

#decentralizedContacts #contactBook #contactApp #facebook