Would something single sign on (SSO) even be possible? I think the convenience of having a single account for the family of federated platforms would be wildly convenient.
Of course folks could continue to have individual accounts on each platform if they wanted.
I also understand that it would create a very tempting target for hackers and it would need to use MFA (multi factor authentication).
Just a thought and I would like to see you all have to say.
Asking after having this discussion.
Not sure if this would help or not but what I want is to own my user, so I can bring it anywhere and not worry if an instance goes down since I own the user. Similar to email with your own domain, the provider I use for email could go down but I have control to the domain/email so I can switch to something else, but keep my user.
This would be great. I don’t want to make multiple accounts if I want to leave an instance. It should be as simple as switching in a menu.
I had a drunk conversation about this very thing last weekend with my brother. We thought about doing it as a crypto coin or NFT or some block chain thing. We got about as far as you expect 2 drunk people talking about something that they have a passing familiarity with but little actual technical knowledge of.
Someone much smarter than me might figure it out one day.
Yeah I’m not going to pretend like I know the technology but I hope it’s possible.
This is why I’m selfhosting an instance just for myself. I was not a fan of the instance admin controlling my account. That is fine for people with ephemeral accounts, but as one can probably see from my nick and instance address, it’s not for me.
It’s bad enough that any community is tied to one instance, even if the content federates.
Yeah I thought about that but it seems a little bit excessive for just what I want.
With mastodon, you can switch your user between instances and bring your followers and stuff with you. I guess the only problem would be is if the server you are leaving suddenly went offline, but I’m on a pretty decent server so I’m not too worried about it.
I don’t think this is in Lemmy, but I imagine it will be at some point.
This could be something that could be incorporated into the development of this process. I would love that too.
If I suddenly didn’t like the way an instance is doing their administration I could move easily.
Yes, this would be nice. You can use .well-known redirects so that when someone searches your owned name they get redirected to a Fediverse account of your choosing. And you can update those redirects if you change accounts. But that’s not quite the same.