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why can't we have federated identity ? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by mango_master@lemmy.world to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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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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[–] Bishma@social.fossware.space 4 points 1 year ago

I keep thinking we need a way to become our own personal IDPs, then we can have both. But if too many people find the current state of the fediverse confusing we're never going to get a critical mass of people to manage their own oauth profiles and scopes.