WhoLooksHere@lemmy.world 8 months ago
So who stores the login information? This is fundamentally the question here.
If you store it centrally you only need to ask for username/password combo.
But then someone needs to store it at a central location for everyone to check against.
If it’s not centralized than the user needs to provide it
Email has a hidden trick up its sleeve and that’s the domain name. In order for an email to be valid, the domain name must contain email info on its DNS records. There’s where you can imply knowledge about where the email/message is to go.
But here in lemmy, my email is just Gmail. There’s no way to find the information on where authentication could be located. Which brings me back to the top of centralization vs decentralization.
marcos@lemmy.world 8 months ago
What I understand the idea is to ask you to enter WhoLooksHere@lemmy.world in the username, and your lemmy.world password.
What I understand is happening (from the comment, because I don’t use apps) is that the app first expects you to choose lemmy.world in a list, and then asks you about your name and password.
Honestly, I have no idea what is easier for anybody. Both seem very equivalent to me. Also equivalent would be asking the server, username and password on the same screen.
Almrond@lemmy.world 8 months ago
To be fair, I use Summit and it just gives you one login box with a drop-down menu that has all of the major instances in it.