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Its not that hard! (i.imgur.com)

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

The motivation for federated logins would be that often you're linked to a post on another instance, such as https://someinstance.net/post/12345 now when i click on that, in the web browser it opens on the other instance, and now what if i want to comment?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I agree that that specific use case is a pain, but I don't think federated logins are the fix for it. Rather, links to posts on other instances should be automatically translated to a link to the federated version of that post on your home instance, such that you can interact with that post without having to re-log-in. There's a bunch of issues in the Lemmy GitHub project related to this, so hopefully it gets implemented soon.

In my opinion, federating logins kind of defeats one of the main purposes of federation though, which is to give the user control over where their user information lives.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 14 hours ago

They still have control over their data. If implemented properly, it just changes where there post is created since the post is synced back to their own server to their own account. Regardless of where it was created, it would still be visible on that server since it is a reply to that post.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Federated logins make sense for forums and websites where you have access to content such as PeerTube.

For forums, logging into the forum with your fediverse account would actually be ideal since you can use a forum-style interface to navigate the topics, which would be easier than trying to navigate the same topics on Mastodon. Same thing with PeerTube. You may want to watch videos on PeerTube and comment right on their website without creating a PeerTube account. With federated single sign on, you can post with your existing fediverse account.

We have that on Hubzilla and it is called OpenWebAuth. We can log into other instances and comment directly on their instance as ourselves after logging in.