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Blake Leonard

While I understand the motive for 's upcoming/new Mastodon SSO, I don't like it.

1. It's confusing to talk about (see above). You have to word it very specifically to make it clear you're signing into Pixelfed with a Mastodon account.
2. The concept is confusing. It isn't the same account, by any means, and you can register on both services. Threads, for example, is more or less an extension on top of Instagram, like Guppe is an "extension" here.
3. It's very narrow and non-standard.

I think it might be better to leave it out, just to avoid the confusion about how the accounts are linked. Instead, and to solve point 3, we could start by reintroducing (or some form of it, like ). Let Pixelfed be a provider, consumer, or both, and get more willing projects like to support it too. That could even lend to eventually support domain-based usernames a la Bluesky, especially if Mastodon gets on board with it.

I'm still not completely sure how OpenID works, either. Does/could the provider remember what services are authorized, and maybe provided details, so your Mastodon settings could show (and maybe even automatically sign you in to) a linked Pixelfed account?