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Beehaw* defederated us? (sh.itjust.works)

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[–] JWBananas@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The root problem is that identity is tied to an instance at all. For a federated system, the lack of federated identity / single sign on is baffling.

[–] FaceDeer@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

Well, it's unfortunate, but it's not baffling. It's quite understandable that there's no single sign-on for a system like this.

If you want to have both decentralization and a shared "identity" across all of the decentralized servers then you're probably going to need something like a blockchain to accomplish that. But people are already complaining about how complicated the Fediverse is, so adding a blockchain into the backbone will likely be challenging to pull off. Not to mention the knee-jerk reaction a lot of people have to the word "blockchain" or "cryptocurrency" regardless of what the actual practical application of it might be.