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

  • cerevant@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    It is really clear until a newb tries to use it:

    • Someone gives you a link, or you find it in search
    • You click on the link, because that’s what you do with links
    • It takes you to what you are looking for, but it says you have to log in to comment or vote
    • You log in so you can comment or vote

    The UX for interacting with off-instance subs is abysmal. What is even worse is that as far as I can tell, there is no way to link a post or comment that is instance relative / instance independent.