Hi folks! Today I have asked myself if I could login with one (no, not google or apple or micosoft) account in all the (30 I think) forums that I have to use as a FOSS admin. Nextcloud Forum, Ubuntu Forum, Mint forum, Makemkv Forum, Papermc Forum, linux.org, etc.

We obviously are on a forum-like social platform but we cant make people use this as their forum I suppose. Ideally, I’d like to federate “all forums” so to speak but that would probably take a shit ton of work. https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/does-this-forum-use-activitypub/2545/2

If not federate the content, maybe federate the logins. So that the profiles federate from one place to the next and you can login anywhere without having 30 different passwords for one “service” (forum in this case).

The next step down would be a foss SSO solution. There seem to be some but I hardly see any pages mention them possibility at all. https://sennovate.com/best-open-source-single-sign-on-solutions/

Am I missing something or is this still in the distant future?

Thanks for reading. Have a good one.

  • @vzq
    7•7 months ago

    Who would you trust with supplying identity services?

    If you don’t trust Google, or Apple, or Microsoft, the biggest email providers in the world (ie where you send your activation links), why on god’s green earth would you trust some rando on the web?

    • hauiOP
      2•7 months ago

      You mean „cant“. You cant trust them. Someone actually put this very well. You could login everywhere with public keys instead of passwords and usernames. I mean, you can’t yet but the idea was neat.

      • @vzq
        3•7 months ago

        You could login everywhere with public keys instead of passwords and usernames. I mean, you can’t yet but the idea was neat

        You certainly can. Look up client side certificates.