Maho Pacheco 🦝🍻<p>I am creating a <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/ActivityPub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ActivityPub</span></a> minimalistic implementation of a badge system similar to Credly, built using <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/dotnet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dotnet</span></a> and leveraging the <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Fediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fediverse</span></a> </p><p>I have issued a first badge, the idea is to decentralize the verification systems, and allow organizations to self-certify. It is incredible that organizations like Microsoft or Non-Profits pay thousands of dollars to companies like Pearson to just provide "verified" badges. Similar to mastodons installed in social-dot-something, thinkg of badges<dot> mozilla<dot>com , certifications<dot>myschooldistrict<dot>com. Or even a podcast emitting a badge for its guests, with the verification in the domain.</p><p>ActivityPub already offers a secure way to sign artifacts and interact between actors. The fediverse already have people with profiles, a social graph as <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://flipboard.social/@mike" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>mike</span></a></span> says, ready to use. Think of how LetsEncrypt disrupted that market of few actors selling certificates for websites.</p><p>I have a functional poc, <br><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://badges.vocalcat.com/actors/badges.vocalcat.com/fediverse" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>fediverse</span></a></span> is not a mastodon, pledora or blog, it is an actor in a badge system, but you can follow it in Mastodon. Its badges will show in <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mastodon</span></a> but they are not notes or articles. If you want to learn more, follow me, I will be sharing the progress here. Or follow the github project here: <a href="https://github.com/tryvocalcat/activitypub-badges" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">github.com/tryvocalcat/activit</span><span class="invisible">ypub-badges</span></a></p><p>Who wants a badge of early adopter?</p>