Introducing Sign-in with Mastodon: Streamlining Sign-up and Login on Pixelfed - eviltoast
  • baduhai@sopuli.xyz
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    1 year ago

    I wish nomadic identities were a thing. It’s a concept I found out about recently, where you could have one Fediverse account for all services, and just login to whatever you want with that preexisting account. Sort of what you describe as a Single Sign-On approach.

    What I think is cool about this way of doing things, is that you could host an ActivityPub server, and login to any instance, even if it’s not your own. For example, I could login to lemmy.world or mstdn.social with my sopuli.xyz account. Or at least that’s what I understood.

    It would probably get me to use the rest of the fediverse, tbh. Right now I only use Lemmy.

    • maegul (he/they)@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      Yep! Many people discover this short coming on their own. Which means it’s basically a universal and objective failure of the fediverse at the moment.

      Something to be concerned about is that I don’t think there are any structural incentives for developers to solve a problem like this. Instead, the incentive structure is geared toward people making their own platform as a silo or making an app for particular platform that has a good amount of users on it. The federating protocol is there, sure. But the financial livelihood of platform developers is dependent on donations from users of their platforms. How many are or even want to be “fediverse developers”?

      I think there’s a pathological state that’s been settled into in this regard and I don’t see much talk or action against it.