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?

  • SQL_InjectMe@partizle.com
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    1 year ago

    and then when your main instance shuts down you can’t log into any again. So what’s the benefit asides from bypassing defederation? (And this wouldn’t even be a benefit, because instances defederate because they don’t like the users, so if you let people log in with oauth from a hated instance then you’d also get defederated

    • loics2@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      The problem already exists now, having oauth wouldn’t change anything.

    • brain_pan@infosec.pub
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      1 year ago

      exactly what I was thinking

      and on top of that what happens with a proven bad actor

      would they be allowed to just jump to a new instance to harrass people?