Comment on Does anyform of multi-fediverse account type of thing exist?
chris@l.roofo.cc 1 year ago
As pretty as that would be it has its problems. For this to work you need an authentication service. If you use that service for everything then your accounts are linked to this auth provider and you get a problem if that service goes down. You create a single point of failure.
That being said matrix and mastodon support oauth providers. So it is possible to have unified authentication provider for these two. Lemmy doesn’t support this yet.
iopq@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The authentication ideally should be distributed. I know you guys hate on the idea of the Blockchain, but it’s great at this. I can prove to you that I hold a private key by singing a message with it
chris@l.roofo.cc 1 year ago
The problem is not the data. Only the central nature and the dependency on a central point.
iopq@lemmy.world 1 year ago
You should only need one key to log in everywhere, even if the servers are different