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Comment on Some Questions about the Fediverse

I find it’s going to need to get even more coonvenient for the general public to be interested in it. Federation almost needs to be a ‘background’ process that the end user doesn’t really need to deal with. Otherwise, it’ll be a little too complicated or obscure to comprehend for most. I know it isn’t rocet science but we’re talking about the general public, here.

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originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
the biggest hurdle ive seen is the lack of federated sso/id. users expect the remote sites to know who they are, and then lose the process where they need to open that thread in their local instance.

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- DisOne@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I’m a new user, so hope you don’t mind answering a question - tried looking this up but no joy: I understand the broad concept of federated sso/id, but what do you mean by opening threads in the local instance?
  
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  - kersploosh@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Here’s an example. Say you want to visit the Engineering community on sh.itjust.works. The community lives at this URL:
    https://sh.itjust.works/c/engineering
    
    However, you are using an account at lemm.ee. In order to post or comment you need to access the community via lemm.ee, which means using this URL:
    https://lemm.ee/c/engineering@sh.itjust.works
    
    In the first case you are accessing the community directly. In the second case you are accessing the community through your local instance.
    
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    CommunityLinkFixer@lemmings.world [bot] ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !engineering@sh.itjust.works
    
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    DisOne@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Thanks for the extra context. Yes I’ve so far only accessed everything via smartphone app, but no doubt I’ll use my pc at some stage. Much to learn…
    
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  - originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    a user gets sent a link to a thread in some remote fediverse site.. which the browser dutifully opens. but then the user cant comment, because they are not logged in. user is confused. it is a common user story.
    
    for some people this is obvious, for others its a problem. google/facebook kinda get around this kind of thing with an SSO process (login with google!)
    
    at its root is the problem of finding remote communities for which one would want to subscribe.
    
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