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There’s a major convergence of OAuth/OIDC support across #fediverse applications, #Matrix is going all-in on it as its root default, and other social web protocols are tagging along as well.
Like the separation of church and state, it seems prudent to keep the management of our digital identities separate from our social network servers.
Domain-based OIDC accounts with web sign-in, especially when self-hosted, serve the function of a minimum-viable #nomadicidentity
@erlend ive only recently started exploring the current state of decentralized identity, but do you have any resources that could explain why fediverse and matrix stuff needs oidc rather than just indieauth?
and you mentioned that theyre not really compatible with each other. does that mean that we need to pick one and discard the other?
@jaxter184 We need something *like* IndieAuth, I.e. ‘web sign-in’. But IndieAuth is an extension of OAuth that predates OIDC and is not compatible with it. Mastodon already supports its own form of ‘web sign-in’, and this too is a custom thing rather than IndieAuth exactly.