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Why can’t we have federated identity to login into fediverse instead of creating login for each instance?

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I understand. It really comes down to your entry point. For example, as long as I'm viewing the community/user/content via my instance I can interact; e.g. I'm replying to a post on https://mylemmy.win/post/114914 ; you, on the other hand are replying to https://kbin.social/m/[email protected]/t/158389/why-can-t-we-have-federated-identity . Since we're viewing from our own instances we can interact. If either of us goes directly to the canonical URL, https://lemmy.world/post/1194109 , we'd be forced to login. It's all the same post, just different points of entry that muddy the user experience.

[–] Rahkshi 2 points 1 year ago

As a new lemmy user this has made a lot of sense! Thanks.