Like two text fields, with the server/instance field autofilling:

username @ server

all 40 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] 29 points 3 years ago (2 children)

Stop thinking Reddit and start thinking email. You don’t log in to Hotmail with your gmail address to read mail sent to you from hotmail.

  • source
  • hideshow 4 child comments
  • [+] 0 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 child)
  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    And you can write an app that will lie about the address of someone posting on ActivityPub. What's your point?

    Mine is that you log in to your e-mail provider to access the content you are interested in. You don't go logging in to other e-mail providers because that is where the people creating the content are.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [+] 12 points 3 years ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 child)
  • [–] 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"?

  • source
  • hideshow 4 child comments
  • [–] [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.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [+] 8 points 3 years ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)
  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    This was the great promise of the fediverse

    Promised by who, when? Seriously - I don’t remember it being a part of the proposition

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    If you want one profile across the entire fediverse, then host your own instance? Or link your accounts to one central website you own or to one profile you own, e.g. Mastodon or Matrix.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [+] 0 points 3 years ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 child)
  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Because it was certainly the only solution I proposed...

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 4 child comments
  • [+] 1 point 3 years ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 child)
  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    That's not what I said. I said you can put a link in your mastodon profile to your own mastodon, your own website and your lemmy account. It will then verify those against your mastodon account. No single sign on possible especially not across different applications (lemmy, kbin, mastodon)

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    There's a plugin that redirects all instances you're browsing to re-open on your home instance. Perhaps that's something you're looking for?

  • source
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago

    Nope, it really doesn't need that, just use any of the web clients if you need that.

    But lemmy, nor Mastodon, nor Pixelfed, nor kbin need that.

  • source
  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    No thanks. We're an instance focused on the queer and gender diverse community. Not a convenient generic login proxy for the entire Fediverse.

  • source
  • hideshow 4 child comments
  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    No we aren't. We are an instance focused on autonomy and anti-censorship.

    (Yes this is somewhat sarcastic, as I'm trying to point out that you are posting on a federated forum. Your instance focused is irrelevant to everyone but your own users)

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Your instance focused is irrelevant to everyone but your own users

    Well yes, that's rather the point. I run this instance for my community. I have no interest in turning my instance in to a generic login proxy for "free speech"

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago

    I guess I'm not understanding what your idea of a federated login looks like from your server perspective. I think that might be the fundamental problem as that idea is different for different people.

    What I would envision a federated login looks like in the case of AP:

    I are directed to a post on your forum. I don't have a login to your forum and my home server has not subscribed to that forum from your server yet. I login at your server which redirects to my home instance, subscribes to the given forum and pulls in the post in question, automatically.

    That seems like some extra steps now that I actually give the mechanics a thought and I think this can be resolved by an extra button on a post that does the above.

  • source
  • parent
  • [–] [S] 0 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    A global login wouldn't break a defedaration, it would simply spit out some error such as "Your credentials are invalid, your home instance is not federated with this instance."

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Well yes, but most of the instances we federate with aren't queer or gender diverse. And the reason we pay for the costs of our instance out of our own pockets is because we are interested in fostering and developing our community of folk who are queer and gender diverse

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    That's literally what the web apps are.

  • source
  • [–] -1 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (2 children)

    Skill issue.

    Edit: Downvote away, it's not like this suggestion warranted actual meaningful discussion. It's just somebody who fundamentally doesn't understand how the fediverse works and thankfully the comments are reflecting that.

    Edit: replying in an edit because this post doesn't deserve more engagement with a new comment.

    @orientalsniper: I know how the fediverse works, been promoting it since the APIception.

    That's cool and all but platform promotion does not equal platform understanding. Especially since you're asking questions like this from Raddle of all places rather than looking at the info on GitHub or any of the documentation linked in instances (at the bottom of the page above the code link). I stand by my statement that OP does not understand how the fediverse works and I'm still happy the comments appropriately flamed this suggestion.

  • source
  • hideshow 4 child comments