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Would something single sign on (SSO) even be possible? I think the convenience of having a single account for the family of federated platforms would be wildly convenient.

Of course folks could continue to have individual accounts on each platform if they wanted.

I also understand that it would create a very tempting target for hackers and it would need to use MFA (multi factor authentication).

Just a thought and I would like to see you all have to say.

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[–] XTornado@lemmy.ml 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

Not sure if this would help or not but what I want is to own my user, so I can bring it anywhere and not worry if an instance goes down since I own the user. Similar to email with your own domain, the provider I use for email could go down but I have control to the domain/email so I can switch to something else, but keep my user.

[–] DeimosE2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This would be great. I don't want to make multiple accounts if I want to leave an instance. It should be as simple as switching in a menu.

I had a drunk conversation about this very thing last weekend with my brother. We thought about doing it as a crypto coin or NFT or some block chain thing. We got about as far as you expect 2 drunk people talking about something that they have a passing familiarity with but little actual technical knowledge of.

Someone much smarter than me might figure it out one day.

[–] worfamerryman@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

With mastodon, you can switch your user between instances and bring your followers and stuff with you. I guess the only problem would be is if the server you are leaving suddenly went offline, but I’m on a pretty decent server so I’m not too worried about it.

I don’t think this is in Lemmy, but I imagine it will be at some point.

[–] caseinpoint@reddthat.com 2 points 1 year ago

This could be something that could be incorporated into the development of this process. I would love that too.

If I suddenly didn't like the way an instance is doing their administration I could move easily.

[–] hallettj@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Yes, this would be nice. You can use .well-known redirects so that when someone searches your owned name they get redirected to a Fediverse account of your choosing. And you can update those redirects if you change accounts. But that's not quite the same.