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

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (19 children)

There's a difference between a federated identify and single-sign on. Your identity /u/mango_[email protected] IS federated. You don't need to have a separate login for each instance. You can use that identity to interact with any instance much the same way I am using my federated identity to currently respond to you.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (7 children)

This works great for apps. But I want to use the web interface to post a reply to content that’s not on my home instance. I can’t do that easily.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What interface are you using now? I'm responding to this thread from kbin.social instance usin kbin webclient

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you post a link to this, then I click that link, I am unable to reply directly, since I am on lemmy.world. I would need to first track down the equivalent post in my instance to reply. SSO solves this

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Oh I see. Yeah, there could be a feature (a browser addon would work too) that reads the webpage meta data before opening it, and pops a "Open in kbin/lemmy/whatever?" window.

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