Do you think if SSO was possible across Federated platforms that it would help drive adoption of decentralized platforms like Lemmy, Mastodon, Pixelfed, Kbin, and others?
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Would something single sign on (SSO) even be possible? I think the convenience of having a single account for the family of federated platforms would be wildly convenient.
Of course folks could continue to have individual accounts on each platform if they wanted.
I also understand that it would create a very tempting target for hackers and it would need to use MFA (multi factor authentication).
Just a thought and I would like to see you all have to say.
Asking after having this discussion.
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You've raised another important thing I've never thought of: How do we even know how connected an instance is to other instances aside from hearing from other users. I didn't even know Beehaw was defederated until you mentioned it.
Defederated from what though? I still see plenty of other community’s posts.
It's not just two, it's two "big" ones and a bunch of eg. neo-Nazi ones, Lemmygrad, spammers and so on. I vaguely remember there being some sort of blocklist that a lot of the instances use, but don't quote me on that.
Lemmy's vanilla UI has the list of connected and blocked instances under
/instances
, so eg. https://beehaw.org/instancesBeehaw is only defederated from two instances iirc, so most of us are still able to see and interact with them.