Post #307833

2026-02-15 07:19 UTC

I&#39;ve had a thought about the whole #Discord thing. One of the reasons why it has become so popular even as a “#forum” thing, despite being *utterly unusable* in that sense, is that is provided single sign-on. Once logged into Discord, you could trivially join any community with zero to no effort. Compare this with the sign-up process in *any* other context and it becomes pretty clear. The only other place that offered a comparable experience was basically reddit, with its own sets of problems.

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@oblomov@sociale.network 2026-02-15 07:22

The migration from #Discord to anything else will not be a problem *only* because e.g. other chat systems to not provide a comparable UX, but *also* because each community going each separate way for *anything* (be it #chat or #forum) is that the first-time login/sign-up will have more friction than the funneling to Discord had.

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@fluffykittycat@furry.engineer 2026-02-16 11:14

@oblomov I've been thinking that sign up friction is a major obstacle that we need to address too. From what I've looked into you can do single sign on with bonus to factor authentication support with authentik to just about anything you host and you can add new stuff on and everyone already has an account, that's the route I'd go if I were to host a server

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@shadowwwind@fosstodon.org 2026-02-16 11:20

@oblomov having all your communities in one menu on the sidebar is also nice

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