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Now, having said that, even though a DID is a simple idea — you can use them in complex systems, but — the concept of a DID is simple ...
Turn an ID (identifier) into a URI.
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Sometimes when I talk to other developers and the topic of a DID comes up — I get the feeling they are making them out to be more complex than they really are
They are just a way to turn an ID (identifier) into a URI
There are certain technologies that expect URIs — and if you want to use your ID with it, you need to turn it into a URI
As a side note — the Fediverse turns Fediverse IDs into URIs by turning them into acct-URIs (rather than DIDs)
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CW: DID-Web
Is DID-Web (did:web) actually a DID?
(DID = decentralized ID.)
Internet domain names are NOT decentralized. They are centralized.