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That’s what I hoped the fediverse was promising to users: one account, cross-instance.
by DHPersonal 3y ago
That’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.