Why does federated software like Lemmy not use SSO from common providers?
Why does federated software like Lemmy not use SSO from common providers?
It seems like an easy way to share users across multiple instances without having to deal with actual registration / bots.
I believe this is against the whole idea of the federation. Users are local to an instance on the federation.
I don't understand why it's against federation. It's no different than an instance offering sign-ins which are federated across all instances. In fact, it's worse, anyone could create an instance and create malicious users.
It seems like an easy way to share users across multiple instances
... but you don't need to have users in multiple instances. Register once, and use your home instance to interact with any content.
Except until that instance shuts down, goes down, etc. There goes all your posts, history, etc.
SSO is the enemy of privacy.
What about posting to publicly accessible federated platforms? Seems inherently not compatible with privacy.
Not at all.