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

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It'd be great to support identity based on a key hash, so that it's completely decoupled from any instances. Maybe some time in the future.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I’ve seen a lot of discussion of account portability, so I think it’s a feature that will be coming, and hopefully soon.