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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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[–] bug@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But it would still require there to be some centralised account provider though, right?

I think that optimistically as the Fediverse is developed you won't need to have different accounts (unless you want to) as an account on one platform will be able to interact with another platform in exactly the same way as one created on that platform would.

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

No, any server instance could support sso as long as they agree on the protocol. If the one you're using now turned it on tomorrow you'd be able to use it elsewhere.