why can't we have federated identity ? - eviltoast

Why can’t we have federated identity to login into fediverse instead of creating login for each instance?

  • anji@lemmy.anji.nl
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    1 year ago

    But do we need some kind of SSO layer with DID verification? All I need to prove my identity anywhere, technically, is my private+public keypair. As long as I hold on to this keypair, distribute it between apps/computers, back it up, I could log in anywhere on a federated platform and use it.

    I hope we’re going to see key-based decentralized identity on ActivityPub at some point… Having accounts tied to instances is just not very robust or scalable.