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

  • wolfcatreader@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    As a newb to Fediverse, I agree because it is ambiguous how to use one account for several instances. I’ve browsed the web for several hours. But I only found out that the above is not a one-size-fits-all because some instances require registration.

    Also, saying that an account can be created to access communities in my experience, implies I can only see and minimally interact on those instances. But I cannot go as far as posting anything because as I previously stated, I need an account on the said instance to do that.

    I see the Fediverse being an umbrella of apps/services. However, from my experience, they’re not synchronized. More like silos.

    • Candelestine@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Yeah, it’s a bit of an issue, there’s a lot of concepts that can get subtly mis-communicated. I wrote this awhile ago, as I felt it helps navigate more intuitively when you have a full top-level view of the whole idea in the first place:

      https://lemmy.world/post/527260