Another thing I just thought of while I was replying to this is that would be really nice to have is cross-instance authentication. It’s kind of annoying when I go to a message context, but then I have to go back and find the message in my inbox to reply.
Very much agree with this. It’d be great if usernames were unique across instances, too, but without some centralized (which I realize is a dirty word in the Fediverse) server handling signups and distributing that information to instances, I don’t see how that would be possible. Obviously we don’t want passwords distributed (even encrypted) to any random instance; it’d be trivial for a bad actor to create a rogue instance just for the purpose of gathering them.
The fact that there’s nothing stopping someone else from registering, say, RagingNerdoholic@Beehaw.org, and claiming to be you even in the same threads you’re posting in, feels a little sketchy.
Very much agree with this. It’d be great if usernames were unique across instances, too, but without some centralized (which I realize is a dirty word in the Fediverse) server handling signups and distributing that information to instances, I don’t see how that would be possible. Obviously we don’t want passwords distributed (even encrypted) to any random instance; it’d be trivial for a bad actor to create a rogue instance just for the purpose of gathering them.
The fact that there’s nothing stopping someone else from registering, say, RagingNerdoholic@Beehaw.org, and claiming to be you even in the same threads you’re posting in, feels a little sketchy.