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Any arguments against separating identity from instance/platform? (single identity across the fediverse) (lemy.lol)
submitted 2 months ago by matcha_addict@lemy.lol to c/fediverse@lemmy.world
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I am sure it was discussed here before, but I can't find a good way to search this community.

Are there any arguments against having a user's identity federate, and be compatible across platforms?

For example, let us say I sign up with my instance, matcha_addict@lemy.lol

But what if I go on mastodon, and I want to have my own micro blog. Or maybe go to write freely and post some blog posts. I'd have to make a different account on each one.

What if mastodon or write freely could just let me log in with my lemmy account (or lets call it federated account). This has several benefits:

  • users don't have to scratch their head on if I am the same person or not across these platforms
  • theoretically, someone following my feed can get updates on what I do on multiple platforms

Now I understand this would be difficult to implement and iron out all the edge cases, but am I missing anything on why it wouldn't be a desirable feature, given it is implemented?

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[–] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I don't understand the benefits.

users don’t have to scratch their head on if I am the same person or not across these platforms

They already don't need to worry about that. Presumably if you could log in with your Lemmy user on Mastodon, your user domain would still refer to your Lemmy instance, just as it does currently. That's besides the fact that I have no idea how this mechanism of logging into different sites would even work.

theoretically, someone following my feed can get updates on what I do on multiple platforms

They can already do that with the current mechanism. It's only a problem with Lemmy not supporting various other forms of social media concepts that prevents you from writing, say, a toot (microblog).

It sounds like what you want is just a more generic ActivityPub instance that supports more forms of social constructs.

Aside from all that, there's what other people have mentioned. Grouping users on instances has all kinds of moderation benefits.