Yeah, fuckin knew it the moment they announced this.

You only want to sideload so Apple’s recommendations don’t know what you’re really up to all day playin’ anime dress up 🤨😉

If someone runs an auth server, and I use it to identify me, and then it goes away, then I’m out of luck, my account is gone. This is the same problem we have now (with logins being tied to instances), except that it introduces a new place for a failure to occur. Rather than just relying on a lemmy instance, I also need to rely on an auth server to be maintained, safe, and secure.

If I went to another auth server, then it’d give me a different identity and that would not make much sense.

We can, passkeys are being adopted all over the web. If you specifically mean for Lemmy or fediverse services, it’s probably just a matter of adding support. It isn’t hard, per se, but it is important to get it right.

You can store passkeys in a password manager like BitWarden and they become portable. Then it doesn’t matter if you have a centralized authentication server. You just get logged in with your passkey, supplied by your password manager.

Congrats you just invented passkeys

So we should make a remote single point of failure, maintained by someone who probably isn’t a security expert or working on it full time?

No, this is unfortunately the opposite of what we should be doing.

EDIT: I should also add that people who make password managers literally focus on only that. They understand what they are making is a huge target and any of them worth their salt have independent audits and spend much of their time on design decisions related to security. Point being: typically the weakest link in a password manager is you. Set a good password, use a YubiKey or some other device, use 2FA, etc.

Nah mate, I don’t think I want to trust some rando identity server with my login, and self hosting just makes them easy targets.

It’s an interesting take though because a lot of good content requires funding too, as well as hosting etc.

So how can we solve that in a reasonable way that doesn’t lead to all the bullshit?

Nintendo backed away from a lot of maintenance lately. Mario Maker 2, all the Mario Parry releases, etc.

The only thing they ever update is Mario Kart 8

Did it even say it was MK9?