@orientalsniper to FediverseEnglish • 1 year agoThere needs to be a global login button for Mastodon/Lemmymessage-square33arrow-up116arrow-down121file-text
arrow-up1-5arrow-down1message-squareThere needs to be a global login button for Mastodon/Lemmy@orientalsniper to FediverseEnglish • 1 year agomessage-square33file-text
minus-squaremacniellinkfedilinkEnglish8•1 year agoWhy? You only need a login to your home instance. Federating the content is done by your instance. So why the need for a “global login button”?
minus-square@jetsetdoritolinkEnglish3•1 year agoThe pain point is if someone sends you a link to a post on a different instance you kind of have to jump through a hoop to interact with it
minus-squareHamSwagwichlinkfedilinkEnglish1•1 year agoThere are plugins to fix that. However, I dislike that approach, but it’s all we have at the moment and it works.
minus-square@orientalsniperOPlinkEnglish1•1 year agoI got into a link posted somewhere in a post that took me to wikipedia’s mastodon but I’m registered on mastodon.world. And this has not been a single instance, happened plenty of times with other lemmy instances.
Why? You only need a login to your home instance. Federating the content is done by your instance. So why the need for a “global login button”?
The pain point is if someone sends you a link to a post on a different instance you kind of have to jump through a hoop to interact with it
There are plugins to fix that. However, I dislike that approach, but it’s all we have at the moment and it works.
I got into a link posted somewhere in a post that took me to wikipedia’s mastodon but I’m registered on mastodon.world. And this has not been a single instance, happened plenty of times with other lemmy instances.
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