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For authentication, you don't want federation, you want OpenID [0]. The "access each of them individually" problem is separate from federation and could be sol
by Laaas 3y ago
For authentication, you don't want federation, you want OpenID [0].
The "access each of them individually" problem is separate from federation and could be solved by having custom clients, such that one client connects to multiple discourses, e.g., if Discourse decided to use the Matrix protocol, you could use any Matrix client to connect to any Discourse instance.
[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenID https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenID
- nirvdrum 3y agoI guess I don't really care what the auth mechanism is, so long as I'm not required to use Google or Facebook. The Mastodon experience is pretty good (not great) in my experience, so I was basing my mental model on that. Really, I'd love to just have NNTP or something similar. I don't want the Slack model where I can't have more than one workplace open at a time. That solves the not needing more than one app problem, but still means switching between communities would have unnecessary friction.