This will take place ~24 hours from now. Feel free to post and upvote questions beforehand in this post, as it will turn into the AMA tomorrow.

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This is a chance for any users, admins, or developers to ask anything they’d like to myself, @[email protected] , SleeplessOne , or @[email protected] about Lemmy, its future, and wider issues about the social media landscape today.

  • InfiniteFlow@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0·
    10 months ago

    Is federated authentication being considered for the future? The federated model of the fediverse is great, but it runs into problems when instances “die”, you want to access different servers as they federate with different things, etc. leading to the need of having multiple accounts. If there were a decentralized network of auth servers, could use the same credentials everywhere.

    • Dessalines@lemmy.mlOPMEnglish
      1·
      10 months ago

      No, Activitypub isn’t based on a migrating authentication / single-sign-on model, but on server-to-server communication.

      Instances with many users already on them dying should be a rare occurrence, and its unfortunate that it happens not just for us, but in the whole fediverse.

    • nutomic@lemmy.mlMEnglish
      01·
      10 months ago

      Then your (hashed) password would have to be copied to all servers, and the email as well for password reset. Seems very problematic for security.