▲ 242 ▼ why can't we have federated identity ? (lemmy.world) submitted 3 years ago by mango_master@lemmy.world to c/fediverse@lemmy.world 156 comments fedilink hide all child comments Why can’t we have federated identity to login into fediverse instead of creating login for each instance?
[+] mechatux@lemmy.world 4 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (2 children) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] e569668@fedia.io 7 points 3 years ago (1 child) I attended a talk in 2019 by Sir Tim Berners-Lee on Solid, which sort of seems related to what you are getting at. The idea being that you own your data/identity, and can decide to share it with third parties. It goes over things like files, but I believe login identities were also meant to be part of it, I see when I scroll down: authenticated by a decentralized extension of OpenID Connect I've been wondering recently, especially with Pixelfed adding login with Mastodon recently, if anyone has heard or experienced anything with that project. But considering I haven't seen it spoken about or implemented since then, I'm not sure I should be hopeful permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [+] mechatux@lemmy.world 4 points 3 years ago [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent
[–] e569668@fedia.io 7 points 3 years ago (1 child) I attended a talk in 2019 by Sir Tim Berners-Lee on Solid, which sort of seems related to what you are getting at. The idea being that you own your data/identity, and can decide to share it with third parties. It goes over things like files, but I believe login identities were also meant to be part of it, I see when I scroll down: authenticated by a decentralized extension of OpenID Connect I've been wondering recently, especially with Pixelfed adding login with Mastodon recently, if anyone has heard or experienced anything with that project. But considering I haven't seen it spoken about or implemented since then, I'm not sure I should be hopeful permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [+] mechatux@lemmy.world 4 points 3 years ago [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent