Like two text fields, with the server/instance field autofilling:
username @ server
Why? You only need a login to your home instance. Federating the content is done by your instance. So why the need for a “global login button”?
The pain point is if someone sends you a link to a post on a different instance you kind of have to jump through a hoop to interact with it
There are plugins to fix that. However, I dislike that approach, but it’s all we have at the moment and it works.
None of the Fediverse has this nor is it practical as not all servers will be running the same software, many modify theirs with custom things. If you want an application to act as a container, try Ferdium. https://github.com/ferdium/ferdium-app
I had no clue about this! This looks actually decent, will try this later!
Stop thinking Reddit and start thinking email. You don’t log in to Hotmail with your gmail address to read mail sent to you from hotmail.
Considering Microsoft allows you to set your Microsoft Account address to anything other than or including Hotmail, I would say that is a bad example.
And you can write an app that will lie about the address of someone posting on ActivityPub. What’s your point?
Mine is that you log in to your e-mail provider to access the content you are interested in. You don’t go logging in to other e-mail providers because that is where the people creating the content are.
My point is your current original comment is fundamentally flawed.
You add to that flawed example with “You don’t go logging in to other e-mail providers because that is where the people creating the content are.” because not only did it deviated from your original point in the original comment, it has nothing to do with what you’re talking about, nor what is *in your original point. To add to that, email, while federated, is not meant to be accessible to people outside the intended recipient.
Your whole original comment was, “Stop thinking Reddit and start thinking email. You don’t log in to Hotmail with your Gmail address to read mail sent to you from Hotmail.” in which I debunked that claim.
There’s a plugin that redirects all instances you’re browsing to re-open on your home instance. Perhaps that’s something you’re looking for?
No thanks. We’re an instance focused on the queer and gender diverse community. Not a convenient generic login proxy for the entire Fediverse.
No we aren’t. We are an instance focused on autonomy and anti-censorship.
(Yes this is somewhat sarcastic, as I’m trying to point out that you are posting on a federated forum. Your instance focused is irrelevant to everyone but your own users)
Your instance focused is irrelevant to everyone but your own users
Well yes, that’s rather the point. I run this instance for my community. I have no interest in turning my instance in to a generic login proxy for “free speech”
I guess I’m not understanding what your idea of a federated login looks like from your server perspective. I think that might be the fundamental problem as that idea is different for different people.
What I would envision a federated login looks like in the case of AP:
I are directed to a post on your forum. I don’t have a login to your forum and my home server has not subscribed to that forum from your server yet. I login at your server which redirects to my home instance, subscribes to the given forum and pulls in the post in question, automatically.
That seems like some extra steps now that I actually give the mechanics a thought and I think this can be resolved by an extra button on a post that does the above.
That’s literally what the web apps are.
Skill issue.
Edit: Downvote away, it’s not like this suggestion warranted actual meaningful discussion. It’s just somebody who fundamentally doesn’t understand how the fediverse works and thankfully the comments are reflecting that.
Needs better Gaming Chair.
I think it’s the lack of frame rate and no mechanical keyboard
Nope, it really doesn’t need that, just use any of the web clients if you need that.
But lemmy, nor Mastodon, nor Pixelfed, nor kbin need that.
This was the great promise of the fediverse – that you would own your profile, and that you would have one profile across the entire fediverse, and that you could migrate that profile from instance to instance if you had disagreements with the admins of your instance – but it seems to have fallen by the wayside with real implementations, which is disappointing.
