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[โ€“] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

More of a wish than a challenge but federated identities would be awesome. Home instance offline? No problem, just switch servers. No need to try and sync settings and subscriptions between accounts.

Blockchains already do this with public key cryptography. Your "login and password" would just be a Mnemonic Phrase. The fediverse just distributes the public information to use that phrase.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Agreed, portability of accounts should be much higher priority that it currently seems to be on either mastodon or lemmy. But also, that limitation is not an option at all on non-federated platforms.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I just did this kinda. Lemmy.world has been a yoyo for weeks.

There's this... https://github.com/aidandenlinger/lasim/blob/main/README.md

Which could be improved to make this happen without user interaction.