#federatedprofile — 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

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

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

Basically, this idea for a federated and decentralized contact book aims at addressing the shortcoming of emails and SMS. The beauty of email and SMS, and the reason why governments and companies always ask for an email or a phone number, is that it's universal. Everybody has one!

And it's not tied to a specific company, so everyone has the freedom to pick a provider (unlike in some countries where everything goes through Whatsapp or WeChat.

#federatedProfile #decentralizedIdentity #email #SMS

3) Everyone to whom you gave permission to access your contact info (phone number, email address, etc) are notified. Their host automatically fetch the new data so your friends have nothing to do. It all works like magic!

4) Your old account is automatically setup as a backup of your new account and will now automatically mirror all changes on your new account. Unless you don't want that, in which case you can delete that old account.

#AccountMigration #decentralizedContacts #federatedProfile

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

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

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

You should have total privacy control of who as access to your personal information. For example, you could hide your phone number by default and people would have to send you a request before seeing it. And would could decide for how long to give it access to: forever or maybe just a couple months? (The default could be something like 2 years.)

#FederatedContactApp #federatedProfile #DecentralizedIdentity #privacy

But if you do have a compatible contacts app (and ideally, all currently existing contact book apps would support this open standard) you can add that URL in your app to save the profile of your friend. At the start, you only see their public profile. But you can then send a friend request to see their private info, which would include things like their personal email address, personal phone number and home address.

#FederatedContactApp #FederatedProfile #DecentralizedIdentity

You could open that web address using any browser to see the person's public profile, which is a good default if you don't have a compatible contacts app. This public profile would list public information that your friend want to share, like maybe their Linkedin profile or work phone number and a short bio.

#FederatedContactApp #federatedProfile #DecentralizedIdentity

Here's how I would imagine a decentralize and federated contact book:

When someone want to give their email or phone number, instead of giving it directly, they would give you their "contact book profile", which would be an web address that would be short and easy to remember. (ex: contactbook.org/narf)

#federatedContactApp #decentralizedContacts #email #federatedProfile