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

username @ server

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    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.

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        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.

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    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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      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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        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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      1 year ago

      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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    This was the great promise of the fediverse – that you would own your profile, and that you would have one profile across the entire fediverse, and that you could migrate that profile from instance to instance if you had disagreements with the admins of your instance – but it seems to have fallen by the wayside with real implementations, which is disappointing.

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      Real baffled with the met resistance, this is a huge QoL that would provide ease of access for new users.

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      This was the great promise of the fediverse

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

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      1 year ago

      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.

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        I don’t think “you can host your own instance” is a very realistic solution for the vast majority of social media users. “Just learn to be a sysadmin so you can post memes” is pretty user-hostile.

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            1 year ago

            Fine, I’ll bite. Where’s the guide to linking my Lemmy account to my mastodon account so I can use a single sign-on for both. I can’t find one anywhere.

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              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)

  • CaptainAniki@lemmy.flight-crew.org
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    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?

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    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.

  • Ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    No thanks. We’re an instance focused on the queer and gender diverse community. Not a convenient generic login proxy for the entire Fediverse.

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      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)

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        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”

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          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.

    • orientalsniper@lemmy.worldOP
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      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.”

      • Ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        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

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            It wouldn’t disrupt it, but it would mean that I would see an influx of users that I have to pay for, that have no interest or involvement with the community that I’m trying to nurture

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    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.