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One Login: Towards a Single Fediverse Identity on ActivityPub (thenewstack.io)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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In response to Bray’s toot, Evan Prodromou — one of the creators of ActivityPub, who is currently writing an O’Reilly book about the protocol — noted that this “is also the argument for using the ActivityPub API.” He described the API as “an open, extensible API that can handle any kind of activity type — not just short text.”

This gets to the nub of the issue. The fact that I can’t use my Mastodon identity to, for example, sign up to Pixelfed is not actually an ActivityPub issue — it’s because the two applications, Mastodon and Pixelfed, each require you to create an account on their respective products. What Prodromou is suggesting is that, technically, you can use the ActivityPub API for account access.

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

Wow, can't wait to get banned in 1 instance and that ban cascading to federated fediverses(?) (through fediverse ??) and getting banned everywhere.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 6 months ago

I think power users might reject it just as we shy away from “login with Google.”

Love it for normies though. Reducing barriers here is huge.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago (1 children)

How about?:

Fediverse > Fedigalaxy > Fediplanet > Fedicountry

ActivityPub > Platform > Instance > Community

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

I prefer:

Fediverse > Fedichorus > Fedibridge > Fedichorus

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

If any federated banning networks do pop up, I'd expect them to form groups, with different groups having different standards. And the idea being that if someone's banned from one place with similar standards, the rest of the group probably wouldn't welcome the content.

It'll come down to places and groups being reasonable, and not banning for stupid reasons (at least by that group's standards). And if they are unreasonable, it'll reflect on the group, as nobody would bother posting to those instances any more.

And in a way, the ultimate "ban" will be with the host instance, similarly to email.
An admin at lemmy.world might get a report that an account is spreading csam links everywhere, and to consider banning them, for example.