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Sometimes I think about Gravatar. Like it was such a simple concept but made sense and saw huge adoption. It seems like the main bottleneck all new platforms f
by dimmke 3y ago
Sometimes I think about Gravatar. Like it was such a simple concept but made sense and saw huge adoption.
It seems like the main bottleneck all new platforms face is getting people to sign up. That’s why OAuth is so popular.
It makes me wonder if Gravatar had not been acquired and had expanded into being a service where the whole point is that you have an account that you can expand and withdrawal from various services, it would have been so much better positioned than more recent attempts or what became OAuth.
- DHPersonal 3y agoThat’s what I hoped the fediverse was promising to users: one account, cross-instance.
- didntcheck 3y agoAnd this is why IMO Lemmy is overcomplicating things. People are conflating single sign on (easy, relatively) with server-to-server federation (hard and resource intensive. Jumping straight into fairly deep waters of distributed systems) Federation makes sense for Mastodon, since you boost (retweet) other people and reply to them, but Reddit communities are not linked like that. The only way they're connected is by hyperlinking, an aggregated front page, consistent UX or API, and shared user accounts. All of which can be done with entirely independent servers and OpenID/OAuth
- gremlinsinc 3y agoI'm building a new protocol that adds a centralized DAO server for essentially auth, and name reservations for different taxonomies or purposes like subreddits, usernames, tags, anything really you'd be able to create unique taxonomies that could be tied to your apps. I want essentially to allow federation but with a single archival source of truth. Just in beginning stages though.