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.

  • iso@lemy.lolOPMEnglish
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    12 days 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.