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Could a "login with lemmy" replace all the login with Google/Facebook we see everywhere? (lemmy.fbmac.net)
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I love the convenience of not having to create a password everywhere I need to be authenticated. It would be interesting to be able to use lemmy instead of feeding more information to these big corporations.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The short answer is: No.

Each site would need to implement this feature themselves. Think of all the potential platforms out there: lemmy, reddit, pinterest, instagram, linkedin, tiktok, snapchat, tumblr, whatsapp, friendster, quora... this list is long. Like REAL long, and Lemmy is nowhere near the top in popularity. Probably not even in the top 50 yet. Why would site developers implement Lemmy sign on over any of these others?

We did have a concerted effort at some point to adopt openid which was specifically designed to unify all these signons in an open manner, but instead we ran into the Standards Problem: xkcd 927.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yes, I too love standards:

  • OAuth
  • OIDC
  • SAML
  • WS-Federation
  • Kerberos
  • Microsoft Entra Connect Sync V2 for AADConnect
  • CAS

Then there's also SCIM to manage accounts, but that's sort of unrelated. I stared into the abyss and the abyss stares back.