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Big Bad John · 2d
You need to isolate the problems you’re describing. You’re mixing impersonation, data integrity, and discovery into one bridge issue. Your pubky (a public-key-signed DNS record in Mainline DHT) t...
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I only see one issue: authority. Bridge administrators have no authority to share ActivityPub posts. They are just random Joes reposting somebody else's content with no associated responsibility or reputation. There's nothing giving the bridge version of the posts legitimacy. If there was then all of the problems I brought up would be solved simultaneously.

Can you explain what DHT means? And isn't DNS's only job to associate a URL with an IP address? Are Pubky's authority mechanisms compatible with ActivityPub?
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Big Bad John · 2d
You’re still blending authority with attribution. Bridge admins have no authority, agreed. They’re just reposting content. That’s precisely the problem with proxy identity. There is nothing binding the bridged account to the origin user beyond social assumption. Pubky doesn’t grant bridges...