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.

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[–] Zak@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'm sad OpenID didn't get more popular. Why aren't popular fediverse accounts OpenID providers? Why can't I use it to log into Discourse forums?

[–] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Because google and Facebook co-opted it and took over the mindshare of openID.

[–] Zak@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

That may be part of it, for other corporations. It doesn't explain why Discourse and Mastodon aren't doing it, for example.