Even aside from the whole “we should centralize the fediverse” thing, there’s something I’ve never really understood about threads like this
Imagine a single sign-in for the entire Fediverse. You wouldn’t need to worry about instances, and onboarding could be much simpler.
I don’t see where that would make any notable difference.
I currently have three different accounts that I use regularly and two more that I use off and on, and I just happened on another instance that looked interesting, so set up an account there day before yesterday, and will certainly do the same somewhere else in the not very distant future. That’s what I’ve done the whole time I’ve been here - I start accounts, sometimes I use them and sometimes I don’t, sometimes the instance shuts down, whatever. I just keep juggling some number of accounts, and always have. So I should be a prime use case for this sort of thing.
And I just can’t see the value at all.
I can get to any of the accounts I currently use regularly with a single click, since they’re all pinned to my home page. And I can get to any of the others with two clicks, since they’re bookmarked. In the event that I get logged out of any of them (which pretty much never happens), I can log back in in about five seconds. And that’s it - that’s the full extent of the labor I have to put in
But every time someone trots out this centralized identity idea, it’s presented as if it’s some sort of wonderful labor-saving thing - as if it will save us all from the horrifically onerous drudgery of having to log in to separate accounts And I just don’t see it. It’s already almost entirely effortless.
Even aside from the whole “we should centralize the fediverse” thing, there’s something I’ve never really understood about threads like this
I don’t see where that would make any notable difference.
I currently have three different accounts that I use regularly and two more that I use off and on, and I just happened on another instance that looked interesting, so set up an account there day before yesterday, and will certainly do the same somewhere else in the not very distant future. That’s what I’ve done the whole time I’ve been here - I start accounts, sometimes I use them and sometimes I don’t, sometimes the instance shuts down, whatever. I just keep juggling some number of accounts, and always have. So I should be a prime use case for this sort of thing.
And I just can’t see the value at all.
I can get to any of the accounts I currently use regularly with a single click, since they’re all pinned to my home page. And I can get to any of the others with two clicks, since they’re bookmarked. In the event that I get logged out of any of them (which pretty much never happens), I can log back in in about five seconds. And that’s it - that’s the full extent of the labor I have to put in
But every time someone trots out this centralized identity idea, it’s presented as if it’s some sort of wonderful labor-saving thing - as if it will save us all from the horrifically onerous drudgery of having to log in to separate accounts And I just don’t see it. It’s already almost entirely effortless.
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