Implementing IndieAuth for Datasette - inspired by a weekend spent at IndieWebCamp East Coast #indieweb simonwillison.net/2020/Nov/1…
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IndieAuth is essentially the spiritual successor to OpenID - it lets you use your own domain name to sign-in to services in a decentralized fashion
Since Datasette actively encourages deploying brand new web applications to new URLs on a whim, it's a great fir for authentication
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😢 @aaronpk knows my stance on this well - domain-based auth is exclusionary and confusing to users. IndieAuth should just use email addresses, even if it's not doesn't use webfinger and just does s/@([^.*]\..*$/\1/ with the address.
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There is no obligation that you have to register your own domain for IndieAuth to work. I’ve talked about this at ActivityPub Conference showing how they can use IndieAuth to enable a standards-based app ecosystem for ActivityPub/Mastodon apps. That of course uses shared domains.
Nov 19, 2020 · 4:16 AM UTC
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