Comment on Change My Mind: The Fediverse is not as connected as were told, and it's splintering even more.
PlasticPigeon@lemmy.world 9 months ago
HOPING TO EXPLAIN BETTER:
Sorry. Perhaps the thoughts were not clear, but have watched a lot of videos and even Wikipedia makes it seem like they are all social networks and that one can follow / post / reply on the other networks:
It isn’t about following everything and everyone, but about not wanting to have a Pixelfed account to follow a photographer, or not needing a Lemmy account to follow interesting topics, or not needing a Mastodon account to follow a blogger / writer. It is perhaps then a bit oversimplified on the “intro to the fediverse” videos / posts that’s been seen on the web. Was hoping to have one single account on any of the above, and then just interact from there, and not needing an account for every single one of them.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fediverse
Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 9 months ago
I see where you come from. We are not there yet, but maybe in the future.
On the other side, having different accounts for different services is also to keep them independent from each other, even if connected
Jilanico@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Hmmm what if there was a new fediverse application dedicated to hosting fediverse accounts. You could then use that account to register with any fediverse instance. Kind of like you can login to various websites with your Google or Facebook account.
That would mean a single account could be used with any Fediverse service (Lemmy, Mastodon, etc.), all post history could be aggregated, and you could easily move from one instance to another.
Lemmy, Mastodon, etc., would have to be enhanced to accept this mode of registration of course.
TORFdot0@lemmy.world 9 months ago
In my opinion a centralized authentication platform such as that requires a single point of failure or a level of trust between instances that isn’t and in my opinion shouldn’t be allowed as it would increase the attack surface for bad actors to exploit.
I think the best way would be for the community to create a docker image or other out of box solution that makes it easy for instance hosts to support multiple services on different subdomains from a single endpoint with shared authentication and as such your lemmy.example.com credentials would work for mastodon.example.com and would work for pixelfed.example.com and would work for peertube.example.com and so on and so forth.
Jilanico@lemmy.world 9 months ago
It wouldn’t be centralized. There would be multiple instances and you’d choose which one to use to host your account.
I like your idea, though. It doesn’t solve the problem of moving your account from one Lemmy instance to another, for example, but it does reduce barriers to entry for other fediverse platforms.