Post #3241138

We did this some years ago (starting around 2010)  using what is now known as OpenWebAuth - which brings cross-domain single sign-on to the fediverse. We can bounce around different instances in our sector of the fediverse and leave "wall to wall posts" as well as comments and follow people with a single click from all over the fedi and never see this kind of stuff. It also lets us share private photos/media with restricted audiences of our choosing and control the ability of these media entities to federate.   I've stopped trying to promote the idea because nobody outside our projects saw any value in it - although recently somebody provided a demo of OpenWebAuth in pixelfed - providing this kind of seamless single click experience and protected media access with Hubzilla. I have no idea if the pull request will get approved. Eugen also came up with a way to do this for Mastodon folks involving custom protocol handlers and js promises. Don't know if that code still exists or what happened to it.