Just like apps and websites implement “Sign in with Apple” and Google couldn’t we build some kind of federated authentication provider? Then everyone creates an account there and fedi apps can implement an easy way to authenticate users. Even non fedi apps could use it. I imagine user interaction between different fediverse platforms would be much easier too.

I guess could run an auth instance. Ideally everyone would run their own, keeping your data safe.

Is there something likes this already? Saw some discussion here but not much else https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/single-sign-on-for-fediverse/712

  • HiddenTower@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    17 days ago

    Since I’ve moved to a password manager I find these social logins less useful. Personal opinion.

    • Saleh@feddit.orgEnglish
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      17 days ago

      Yeah, also if the one login gets compromised, oh boy…

      Anecdote time. My first e-mail account got hacked. I still had my Steam account attached to it. Now i have a VAC Ban in CS2 because some chinese kid used it for hacking ingame.

        • Saleh@feddit.orgEnglish
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          16 days ago

          Yeah it can. But then they have only my passwords. If they steal a database from a large identity provider, they have millions if not hundreds of millions of passwords. For monetarily motivated crime, my password manager is not a realistic target.

        • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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          17 days ago

          It can, but is it likely to? To get my passwords, you’d need my KeePass database itself, which is only stored on computers I own. To unlock my password database, you need my password, which I have not stored digitally anywhere, and you’d need to have the keyfile. Oh which of the hundreds of thousands of files on my system is the keyfile?

          So you’ve gotten my password database open. Critical things like my lynchpin email address and banking accounts just aren’t in there. Those I memorize only. All of the “This would be bad if this got compromised” accounts have 2-factor authentication.

          Compared to breaking into a retailer or bank’s servers and getting hundreds of thousands if not millions of credentials, that’s a lot of effort to get one guy’s Lemmy account deets.

    • z3r0@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      17 days ago

      Also doesn’t this comes against the decentralization principles of the fediverse?

        • forrgott@lemm.eeEnglish
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          17 days ago

          I have a hard time wrapping my head around this one. If you “federate” authentication, wouldn’t that just open it up to bad actors?