I personally am fine with this.

  • SkaveRat
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    Like why on earth do I need two different authenticator apps on my phone (authy&google authenticator)?

    you… don’t?

    Both of these implement exactly the same protocol (TOTP). Used authy for all my Top Of The Pops Time-based one-time password needs exclusively, before moving everything to bitwarden

    • @subtext
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      Unfortunately there are some websites that require Authy (probably because Authy wined and dined some business executive). I absolutely loathe these sites but if it’s a site you’re not willing to live without, you’re stuck with having Authy plus your main 2FA app.

      • SkaveRat
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        which ones are that? I’d love to check, because afaik, they have a feature that enables push-2fa via authy, but should generally work on other apps as well

          • SkaveRat
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            Are you sure that you can’t use a different TOTP generator? There’s a difference between telling you to use Authy and still being able to use a different app

            • LittleLily
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              Yes I’m sure, hence why I specifically mentioned that. Try the sign up procedure yourself. It REQUIRES 2fa and it has to be Authy’s non-standard token or SMS. No option for regular TOTP.

              • SkaveRat
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                thx. just making sure. I already saw a lot of people annoyed about a specific app, just because that was the one being advertised, but in the end it was TOTP

      • @subtext
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        Well the good news for you is that a website specifying one or the other is nothing more than marketing from that app maker! So long as there is a QR code (or a long random-ish string), you can use any authenticator app that supports that website’s 2FA algorithms!

        That last bit is important because I think Lemmy had a non-standard 2FA algorithm (SHA-256?) that wouldn’t work with Google Authenticator.

        • Rootiest
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          Lemmy works with Google Authenticator, but not with Authy.

          Annoyingly Authy fails silently and ignores the part of the code that specifies SHA-256 and just generates a SHA-1 code that won’t work with no warning or indication to the user.

        • Otome-chan
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          that’s good to know. I’ll just switch everything over to google authenticator then.