Comment on Activity Pub: Can I join a PeerTube or Mastodon server using a Lemmy account?
VoxAliorum@lemmy.ml 3 weeks agoOh, I agree. I meant SSO in the second sense: that there are external Identity Providers that you can use to create an account at different servers hosting different kind of fediverse experiences - be it Lemmy, PeerTube, Mastodon or … I understand the issue you are describing first, but I haven’t had that problem yet. Sounds like it could be fixed with a simple redirect - but I guess it is not so easy to figure out whether you need a redirect in the first place.
psycotica0@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Yeah, the redirect is easy. The hard part is that I’m just some unauthenticated user on whatever.net or something and I clicked the 👍 button. That could pop up a box that’s like “hey, what server is your server?” and then I type it in. That could be done, but it’s kinda crap, and we don’t have anything better 😅
VoxAliorum@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
I think for now the easiest solution would be a browser extension “TakeMeHome” that automatically redirects you when you enter a foreign server that is federated with your home server. Should be pretty easy to implement.
psycotica0@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
The fediverse has been around for a while, and fediverse people are more likely to want browser extensions than most demographics, so honestly that may already exist!