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The free fediverses should make it easier to move between (and create) instances (privacy.thenexus.today)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/7371919

There's likely to be a lot of moving between instances as people and instances sort themselves out into the free fediverses and Meta's fediverses -- and today, moving accounts on the fediverse today. There are lots of straightforward ways to improve it, many of which don't even require improvements to the software. And there are also opportunities to make creating, customizing, and connecting instances easier.

(Part 5 of Strategies for the Free Fediverses )

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

What would be good is if you could have a fediverse LDAP like login so you can use your login on any fediverse account and all your post etc link back to that single ID.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I think you just invented blockchain

[–] girsaysdoom 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nah, what they described is more like SSO between websites.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Sure, what happens when your centralized authentication server dies or gets Musked? We're just kicking the problem down the line.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Not even LDAP is on the same magnitude of slow and inefficient as a blockchain solution.

And as always, the Blockchain Rule applies: Whenever you come upon a situation where blockchain is the correct solution, blockchain is not actually the correct solution, you just want a normal database.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nah, they invented SSO. Which would make a lot of sense for a group of decentralized services.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you move authentication to any single authority, you have negated all of Lemmy's benefits.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

i think he means you could continue to utilize your current single auth source like you do with lemmy.ca.

SSO allows for other sites to validate you at 'your home' by throwing tokens around.