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It seems like an easy way to share users across multiple instances without having to deal with actual registration / bots.

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[–] sorwin 2 points 1 year ago

I don't understand why it's against federation. It's no different than an instance offering sign-ins which are federated across all instances. In fact, it's worse, anyone could create an instance and create malicious users.