why can't we have federated identity ?

mango_master@lemmy.world to Fediverse@lemmy.world – 229 points –

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

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I wish there was a way links could auto-resolve to the instance I’m logged in with.

I think people are working on browser extensions to do that, and it would work for users & communities. As far as I can tell posts and comments are numbered by the instance, and don't correspond between instances, so there is no way to link them in an instance independent way.