I have high trust in my government not to abuse the knowledge and as much as I’d love to live in a world with a truely anonymous internet there are just to many people taking advantage of that anonymity and it makes platform moderation extremely tedious. I fully believe if you say something unhinged like “im gonna kill my ex wife” cops should de anon the account and be at that persons door to arrest them.

My ideal internet model is a two tiered internet. One where everyone is authenticated and an anonymous one where nobody is. If you want to whistleblow or communicate safely you are free to do so and the main Internet can be cleaned up of bad actors. For actual people who spam and stuff thats annoying but not illegal they be exponentially temp banned from that site. No perm bans if you can only have 1 identity. I’d still want people to have multiple accounts I might have one with my real name one with an alias the site and other users would have no idea but if I said I was going to do a terrorist attack or something both my accounts would get banned and I’d get arrested.

I read it. My opinion is the same. I would absolutely NEVER in a million years use my passport or any ID to log into a social media platform. Regardless of the way the data is managed. People are too clever to not devise a way to pull some kind of shenanigans with it. And it’s a slippery slope too. I don’t want to get comfortable with the idea of this. I don’t want any of us getting comfortable with this.

SSO doesn’t work like that. Conventionally, there is an sso ml provider, an sso world provider, and anyone else from the fediverse. Any server, for example lemmy, looks at the login domain during authorization and sends a request to the server along the lines of “someone is trying to log in, send the cookies and a redirect link”; someone is redirected to the SSO server, authenticates there, and then returns back to the original lemmy node. The registration endpoint can be determined by the domain.

Like, for example, lemmy.world login 1234@lemmy.ml -> redirect to lemmy.ml for password -> redirect to lemmy.world back. Or any another instance in fediverse.

Accordingly, this is literally no different from what exists now except for one nuance — I won’t need to go to my instance anymore, find a post mirrored from world, and write a comment there. I will simply be able to log in directly on world and write whatever I want.

And passwords are in the hands of the node admins anyway. This will literally differ from the current scheme in nothing except that potentially the owner of your lemmy account could hijack your mastodon. But those who actually think about this will just make 2 SSO accounts. But how easy that will be. No 20 accounts in 20 instances… And no one will have to explain why they need 20 accounts at all.