DmMacniel comments on There needs to be a global login button for Mastodon/Lemmy

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[–] DmMacniel@feddit.de 8 points 3 years ago (4 children)

Why? You only need a login to your home instance. Federating the content is done by your instance. So why the need for a "global login button"?

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[–] jetsetdorito@lemmy.world 3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

The pain point is if someone sends you a link to a post on a different instance you kind of have to jump through a hoop to interact with it

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[–] HamSwagwich@showeq.com 1 point 3 years ago

There are plugins to fix that. However, I dislike that approach, but it's all we have at the moment and it works.

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[–] orientalsniper@lemmy.world [S] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

I got into a link posted somewhere in a post that took me to wikipedia's mastodon but I'm registered on mastodon.world. And this has not been a single instance, happened plenty of times with other lemmy instances.

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[–] kglitch@kglitch.social 1 point 3 years ago

There are browser extensions that solve this for Mastodon instances. I'm sure the Lemmy and Kbin equivalents will arrive in due course.

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