Why can’t we have federated identity to login into fediverse instead of creating login for each instance?

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[–] 2 points 3 years ago

@masterspace @mango_master @Kichae
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If that’s given, every entity (@‘person, @‘community, …) on each instance is unique.
Therefore, there can never be a duplicate identity = <entity>@<instance.domain>
Which allows the general assumption (all implementations adhere to the standard) each instance (homing instance, where the user is based) can verify the every identity within it’s domain.
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