Well, it’s unfortunate, but it’s not baffling. It’s quite understandable that there’s no single sign-on for a system like this.
If you want to have both decentralization and a shared “identity” across all of the decentralized servers then you’re probably going to need something like a blockchain to accomplish that. But people are already complaining about how complicated the Fediverse is, so adding a blockchain into the backbone will likely be challenging to pull off. Not to mention the knee-jerk reaction a lot of people have to the word “blockchain” or “cryptocurrency” regardless of what the actual practical application of it might be.
At some point they will change to whitelist, which will ban all single user instance as well.
The root problem is that identity is tied to an instance at all. For a federated system, the lack of federated identity / single sign on is baffling.
Well, it’s unfortunate, but it’s not baffling. It’s quite understandable that there’s no single sign-on for a system like this.
If you want to have both decentralization and a shared “identity” across all of the decentralized servers then you’re probably going to need something like a blockchain to accomplish that. But people are already complaining about how complicated the Fediverse is, so adding a blockchain into the backbone will likely be challenging to pull off. Not to mention the knee-jerk reaction a lot of people have to the word “blockchain” or “cryptocurrency” regardless of what the actual practical application of it might be.