Like two text fields, with the server/instance field autofilling:
username @ server
Stop thinking Reddit and start thinking email. You don’t log in to Hotmail with your gmail address to read mail sent to you from hotmail.
And you can write an app that will lie about the address of someone posting on ActivityPub. What’s your point?
Mine is that you log in to your e-mail provider to access the content you are interested in. You don’t go logging in to other e-mail providers because that is where the people creating the content are.
None of the Fediverse has this nor is it practical as not all servers will be running the same software, many modify theirs with custom things. If you want an application to act as a container, try Ferdium. https://github.com/ferdium/ferdium-app
This was the great promise of the fediverse – that you would own your profile, and that you would have one profile across the entire fediverse, and that you could migrate that profile from instance to instance if you had disagreements with the admins of your instance – but it seems to have fallen by the wayside with real implementations, which is disappointing.
This was the great promise of the fediverse
Promised by who, when? Seriously - I don’t remember it being a part of the proposition
If you want one profile across the entire fediverse, then host your own instance? Or link your accounts to one central website you own or to one profile you own, e.g. Mastodon or Matrix.
I don’t think “you can host your own instance” is a very realistic solution for the vast majority of social media users. “Just learn to be a sysadmin so you can post memes” is pretty user-hostile.
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
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.
There’s a plugin that redirects all instances you’re browsing to re-open on your home instance. Perhaps that’s something you’re looking for?
