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title: Sept 25th, 2020 date: 2020-09-25 category: Journal

Self rendering Markdown

I compiled all the Javascript Markdown scripts into a test deploy on Fission at https://petite-junior-angular-llama.fission.app.

@-mentions as key network signifier

Had a good call with Rabble talking about UCAN, Planetary, and the “discovery” problem in social networks. Specifically, mapping unique identifiers like a hash or a key to a username. And, that those usernames probably all look like @username (back to Social Mentions!).

Twitter was the undisputed champion of @-usernames, but I’d say that Instagram is as big or bigger depending on the context. Celebrity, food, small business are increasingly defaulting to IG as the primary @-username.

Yes, many other systems use @-usernames, but the “default” mapping is to Twitter.

Idea that I floated for portability / look-ups: usernames linked to DIDs using Verifiable Claims. This “proves” that a DID has control over a username on a given network.