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.
Not sure if this would help or not but what I want is to own my user, so I can bring it anywhere and not worry if an instance goes down since I own the user. Similar to email with your own domain, the provider I use for email could go down but I have control to the domain/email so I can switch to something else, but keep my user.
This would be great. I don’t want to make multiple accounts if I want to leave an instance. It should be as simple as switching in a menu.
With mastodon, you can switch your user between instances and bring your followers and stuff with you. I guess the only problem would be is if the server you are leaving suddenly went offline, but I’m on a pretty decent server so I’m not too worried about it.
I don’t think this is in Lemmy, but I imagine it will be at some point.
This could be something that could be incorporated into the development of this process. I would love that too.
If I suddenly didn’t like the way an instance is doing their administration I could move easily.
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Yeah I thought about that but it seems a little bit excessive for just what I want.