Back in June I wrote about an exciting confluence of digital auth tech:
(1) The commodification of #OIDC infrastructure, (2) the emergence of #FedCM, (3) and the compatibility of both with #indieauth .
In short, it is now easier than ever to log into web applications using your own website as an identity provider. Or at least, it would be, if your favorite web apps supported these agency-enhancing technologies.
https://blog.erlend.sh/indie-social-sign-in-could-go-mainstream
#opensource #indieweb #identity
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Are the people who invented this aware of NOSTR?
If so, what makes this different? And if not, perhaps we could use NOSTR to bridge the gap in the fediverse at the moment between NOSTR users and Mastodon/Pixelfed/Lemmy/KBIN/MBIN usersI started forking Lemmy for an inventory system but then realized that NOSTR was far more suited to that and other applications that require security and encryption.
Indieweb predates NOSTR I think.
sign in to websites using your personal web address, without having to use your e-mail address.
What is the point of that? For convenience, email addresses are much easier to come by than is web hosting. For being securely anonymous it’s also much easier to do through email — but not by so much that requiring a website rules it out, if that’s the intention.
