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I know this convo was 2 weeks ago, but they published a great article that includes how Identify is handled that answers our questions.
https://atproto.com/articles/atproto-ethos
Effectively identify is as the PDS level. So if Bluesky goes down and your account were through Bluesky you'd lose your identity ?*
If your account is held through another platform like Spark or your own self hosted PDS your identity would remain live.
*My question that sparked from this is if Bluesky went down and you're already logged into a second platform, when you log into that second platform does it duplicate your DID? I'm assuming not and you'd still lose it because logins are through OIDC and the keys still exist on Bluesky.
Regardless the true path to decentralization should be everyone hosting their own identity on their own PDS w/ identity but that might be a longshot. The path to decentralization is effectively allowed but will people take advantage of it?