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Could a "login with lemmy" replace all the login with Google/Facebook we see everywhere? (lemmy.fbmac.net)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I love the convenience of not having to create a password everywhere I need to be authenticated. It would be interesting to be able to use lemmy instead of feeding more information to these big corporations.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I ran into this issue when writing the Canvas authentication thing

There is a standard to simplify authentication and identification across the entire web but it isn’t fully implemented everywhere

OAuth2 is the big name in this, it supplies authorized requests to access data from other companies and services

OpenID is related to OAuth2 but it only supplies identification in a standardized way. OpenID has mechanisms to announce that a specific domain has support for this and how to automatically register for it (removing the need to have a bunch of login buttons)

For Canvas 2024 I’m implementing drop in implementations for popular Fediverse software (including Lemmy)

Hopefully more fedi software implements OAuth2 or at least OpenID to vastly simplify authentication (and possibly replace “login with google”)