Post #788906
2023-03-18 21:48 UTC
Replies (4)
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@MrLee@aus.social 2023-03-18 21:55
@mike@flipboard.social I think this is essentially the problem I have where I have the url for a toot but can't directly comment because it wants me to sign in to a different server.
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@tchambers@indieweb.social 2023-03-18 22:12
@mike@flipboard.social Yes, this is I believe due to browser issues, but it is one of the roughest of rough edges to figure out a better solution for. There are browser plugins that fix, but that is NOT a real fix.
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@mike@macgirvin.com 2023-03-18 22:27
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.
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@davew@mastodon.social 2023-03-18 22:42
@mike@flipboard.social hey mike nice to see you. 😀 that was the big advantage twitter had over RSS feeds. it was possible to centralize subscriptions, but it required cooperation among the different vendors. and i think people in this world will resist centralization.