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Do you think if SSO was possible across Federated platforms that it would help drive adoption of decentralized platforms like Lemmy, Mastodon, Pixelfed, Kbin, and others? (reddthat.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by caseinpoint@reddthat.com to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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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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[–] DundasStation@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But it hardly matters to the user because it’s all federated anyway

Unless you unknowingly joined a community that was defederated by everyone else.

[–] LedgeDrop@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yeah, I had joined Beehaw shortly before they defederated. I knew this happened, but I thought "meh, it'll be alright". I tried to make the best of it... but at the end of two weeks I was asking myself "Is this all there is to the fediverse? It's pretty disappointing".

So before I gave up on Lemmy and the fediverse, I looked for a new Lemmy server that wasn't defederating nor defederated from the fediverse. Eventually, I settled on Lemm.ee and I see know just how much of the fediverse was being filtered out for me.

disclaimer: I don't fault Beehaw for their decision to defederate. It is their choice to make, and I greatly admire and respect their transparency in the matter. However, for myself, I don't need, want or appreciate these extra guard rails "to keep me safe". I'm an adult and are willing to act and be treated like one.

[–] DundasStation@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You've raised another important thing I've never thought of: How do we even know how connected an instance is to other instances aside from hearing from other users. I didn't even know Beehaw was defederated until you mentioned it.

[–] Stormyfemme@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Defederated from what though? I still see plenty of other community’s posts.

[–] interolivary@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

It's not just two, it's two "big" ones and a bunch of eg. neo-Nazi ones, Lemmygrad, spammers and so on. I vaguely remember there being some sort of blocklist that a lot of the instances use, but don't quote me on that.

Lemmy's vanilla UI has the list of connected and blocked instances under /instances, so eg. https://beehaw.org/instances

[–] a_statistician@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Beehaw is only defederated from two instances iirc, so most of us are still able to see and interact with them.