reverse colexicographic Nora @noracodes@tenforward.social
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Okay, I figured it out. See, it's simple. You just

Generate a key in one format
Convert it to another
Create a JSON document with a very specific and kind of undocumented format
Create a new account by making raw API calls, because there is no client to do it for you
Call a barely documented endpoint that returns some almost-but-not-quite correctly formatted JSON to put in that JSON document
Strip some characters from one of the fields in that document
and boom, DID:WEB and true decentralization.

Should be easy for anyone to do, right? Way easier than just picking an instance and clicking sign up.

reverse colexicographic Nora @noracodes@tenforward.social
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Oh and don't forget to
- already have your own hosting set up
- know how to set CORS headers
- know how to debug any of this when it inevitably fails

the only place the *working* process is documented is in a comment on a GitHub issue: github.com/bluesky-social/atpr

but there are many blog posts that tell you how to do it wrong!

Describe the bug did:web is one of the blessed did types for atproto and currently there seems to be no way to make accounts with it, although it was previously possible To Reproduce Steps to repro...

did:web accounts seem to be impossible to create right now · Issue #2100 · bluesky-social/atproto

Describe the bug did:web is one of the blessed did types for atproto and currently there seems to be no way to make accounts with it, although it was previously possible To Reproduce Steps to repro...

github.com · GitHub

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