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What would be a "vender-neutral" solution in this case? There are very very few people that host their own email servers on the internet meaning almost everyon
by revicon 9y ago
What would be a "vender-neutral" solution in this case? There are very very few people that host their own email servers on the internet meaning almost everyone hitting this login window have a gmail/yahoo/whatever email address.
- madez 9y agoA good way would be to accept gpg keys as identities.
- Shoothe 9y agoIndieauth.com does just that: https://indieauth.com/pgp https://indieauth.com/pgp
- toyg 9y ago> There are very very few people that host their own email servers Most people have jobs with companies that run mailservers. There are even community mailservers. Email is a free protocol, and as such it's vender-neutral by default. But it makes more sense in the context of a reply further down: "NYU is a private university. The social media login option is only for visitors who are engaged in onsite research. Our materials are not available to the public online." If they are a private company, of course they can do as they please. Tbh, there are two possible explanations: 1. Someone tried to save a bunch of money and data-handling responsibility. 2. Someone sold tracking data and users to Twitter and Facebook.
- deathanatos 9y agoOpenID. Stack Overflow / StackExchange does an excellent job of this, IMO. Even some of the major "social" providers support this; e.g., I think Google does.