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Lemmy Federate now uses DNS-based authentication (lemy.lol)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/lemmyfederate@lemy.lol
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I made this change to increase software support for Lemmy Federate. This way, besides Lemmy and Mbin, other software that supports FEP-1b12 such as NodeBB, Piefed, Guppe, Friendica or other custom implementations (like blogs) will be able to register to Lemmy Federate.

However, I must admit that this change makes the login mechanism more difficult. But I believe it was worth it.

An example authentication flow:

  • Enter instance host and click login

  • Add given record to DNS, and click login again

  • At this point, API key becomes reusable between logins.

If you experience any problems please let me know.

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[–] 4 points 1 year ago

Thank you for the update!

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    [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    "Request failed with status code 404 Not Found: POST https://quokk.au/api/v3/user/login"

    When trying to submit, and I'm not seeing the account subscribing to anything.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    You switched to Piefed? It’s still registered as Lemmy instance in Lemmy Federate. This is an edge case I haven’t thought of.

    I can fix this manually but if you haven't transferred keys, switching on the same domain didn't seem healthy to me.

    Update: fixed it.

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