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# Identity
Centralized identities are administered and controlled by a single authority. Centralized social networks offer users centralized identities, administered and controlled by the service. Decentralized social networks offer forms of identity that are not centralized, with varying degrees of user control. Decentralized identities may be [federated, user-centric, or self-sovereign](https://github.com/WebOfTrustInfo/self-sovereign-identity/blob/master/ThePathToSelf-SovereignIdentity.md).
Centralized identities are administered and controlled by a single authority. Centralized social networks offer users identities that are administered and controlled by the service. Decentralized social networks offer forms of identity that give users varying degrees of control. Decentralized identities may be [federated, user-centric, or self-sovereign](https://github.com/WebOfTrustInfo/self-sovereign-identity/blob/master/ThePathToSelf-SovereignIdentity.md).
We will call entities with identities "actors", because non-human entities such as companies, organizations, and bots may have identities on a social network.
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Email is the most successful federated social application. As a result, many user identifiers in federated applications look similar to email addresses.
- XMPP - User identity in XMPP is a username followed by the homeserver: `alice@example.comq`
- XMPP - User identity in XMPP is a username followed by the homeserver: `alice@example.com`
- Matrix - User identity in Matrix is a username followed by the homeserver: `@bob:matrix.org`