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The free fediverses should make it easier to move between (and create) instances (privacy.thenexus.today)
submitted 10 months ago by thenexusofprivacy@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/fediverse@lemmy.world
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/7371919

There's likely to be a lot of moving between instances as people and instances sort themselves out into the free fediverses and Meta's fediverses -- and today, moving accounts on the fediverse today. There are lots of straightforward ways to improve it, many of which don't even require improvements to the software. And there are also opportunities to make creating, customizing, and connecting instances easier.

(Part 5 of Strategies for the Free Fediverses )

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[–] hellequin67@lemm.ee 16 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

What would be good is if you could have a fediverse LDAP like login so you can use your login on any fediverse account and all your post etc link back to that single ID.

[–] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 2 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I think you just invented blockchain

[–] girsaysdoom@sh.itjust.works 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Nah, what they described is more like SSO between websites.

[–] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 5 points 10 months ago

Sure, what happens when your centralized authentication server dies or gets Musked? We're just kicking the problem down the line.

[–] Carighan@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Not even LDAP is on the same magnitude of slow and inefficient as a blockchain solution.

And as always, the Blockchain Rule applies: Whenever you come upon a situation where blockchain is the correct solution, blockchain is not actually the correct solution, you just want a normal database.

[–] ImADifferentBird@kbin.earth 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Nah, they invented SSO. Which would make a lot of sense for a group of decentralized services.

[–] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

If you move authentication to any single authority, you have negated all of Lemmy's benefits.

[–] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 2 points 10 months ago

i think he means you could continue to utilize your current single auth source like you do with lemmy.ca.

SSO allows for other sites to validate you at 'your home' by throwing tokens around.