Allow remote authentication via federation · Issue #15082 · minetest/minetest
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Problem Right now a player has to create a new account on each server. This can be tedious and can even open the door up to impersonation and username conflicts. Ideally there should be a way to cr...

Pure walled-garden behavior from the Minetest devs.

  • mlfh
    22·
    22 days ago

    The feature request includes the phrase “Behind the scenes there would need to be some cryptographic magic,” because it’s just yet another “I have a sweet idea for an app, bro, I just need you to do the coding for me” pitch.

    The project has 766 contributors with pull requests being accepted all the time. That’s not a walled garden.

    • hankskyjames777@thebrainbin.orgOP
      17·
      22 days ago

      What I meant by “walled garden” is about federation and not commits, like look at the Signal app federation situation, they rejeted it because it might be confused with cyptocurrency, which I did hate because of its volatility

  • Niquarl
    2·
    15 days ago

    I don’t see how this is such a big issue. Would feel weird to not be able to change username per server. Sometimes as my name for playing with friends or a pseudonyme if playing with strangers?