▲ -5 ▼ There needs to be a global login button for Mastodon/Lemmy (lemmy.world) submitted 3 years ago by orientalsniper@lemmy.world to c/fediverse@lemmy.world 35 comments fedilink hide all child comments Like two text fields, with the server/instance field autofilling: username @ server
[–] DmMacniel@feddit.de 8 points 3 years ago (2 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"? permalink fedilink source hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] 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 permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] 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. permalink fedilink source parent [–] 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. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] 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. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] 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 permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] 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. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] 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. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] 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. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] 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. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] 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. permalink fedilink source parent