I have been exploring ways to increase connectivity and overall audience for the fediverse, and one way I have been considering is developing ways of linking fediverse accounts to the indieweb.
The way I am picturing this would work would require an identity layer that creates an umbrella identity for fediverse accounts, and links them to an indieweb url as a user’s primary identity. This could be done using a DID system that has a series of methods that links these accounts to the site as the overarching identity. This could facilitate the development of new platforms that serve as a “universal translator” across fediverse accounts, bluesky accounts, etc, while also pointing to a users website as their primary profile, which could serve as everything from personal Myspace style websites to band/artist/business websites/portfolios. This could be a way for users to seamlessly browse between the indieweb and the fediverse, and could allow for easy syndication of content across platforms, in a more comprehensive way than current tools allow.
Could this work, and what sorts of issues might it present in terms of presenting a coherent link between platforms?
An issue would be something Xkcd joked about
A less agressive approach imo is to have RSS-tracking instances and bots. It is not uncommon, that I can observe, for smaller sites to have those, and by leveraging trackers, you at least can keep track of those without having to push against the majority of the internet.
