As a normal folk trying to understand the inner workings of the fedi, Mastodon, and all these available services that interact with the platform: has the possibility of some kind of single signon option been discussed?
It feels weird that I have to create completely separate acounts for #Mastodon, #PixelFed, #kbin, #friendica, #WriteAs etc.
An issue is that #ActivityPub was more or less designed centralized around instances, for better or worse, so ideas like SSO or other ways of using accounts across instances is a bit incompatible with the underlying technology.
There are ways to kludge it on, but it wasn't designed with that objective.
This is one area in which other systems like #Bluesky might be better, having made their different engineering choices in their cores.
@volkris @chartier I much prefer #activitypub, warts and all, it has huge issues, but it's a free protocol under our control. #bluesky? not so much...
Yes, I know many people feel that way.
I'd rather have a more functional protocol that better provides features so many are clamoring for, better serving those users, regardless of associations.
