The problem with the web has been centralization. SSO is centralization.
Yes, but the reason people still use SSO is that security is hard. If a website uses SSO, they don't need to store any password information. Reuse of tech and keeping the number of sources that have sensitive data small, are good.
Your final sentence is an issue as big as any imagined binary blob yet you present it as no big deal.
Priorities and orders of magnitude. If we can get people to quit instagram and to join pixelfed, I think that's a relative improvement, even if the google SSO is still not ideal. You are right, SSO with google is not ideal.
Addendum: Yes we know that you think ml/hexbear/grad are tankies and or .world are a bunch of liberals but it gets old quickly. Try and come up with new material.
This is not the place to start flamewars between Lemmy, Mbin and Piefed.
Your final sentence is an issue as big as any imagined binary blob yet you present it as no big deal.
The problem with the web has been centralization. SSO is centralization.
But it only happens if you choose it.
Yes, but the reason people still use SSO is that security is hard. If a website uses SSO, they don't need to store any password information. Reuse of tech and keeping the number of sources that have sensitive data small, are good.
Priorities and orders of magnitude. If we can get people to quit instagram and to join pixelfed, I think that's a relative improvement, even if the google SSO is still not ideal. You are right, SSO with google is not ideal.
SSO doesn't need to be centralized, at least not like how Google is centralized.