Troed Sångberg
2026-04-06T08:48:22Z

I think it boils down to you already having a Google account, which means that if you watch a video on Xitter you're already - in addition to X - authenticated on Youtube.

The same isn't done in the Fediverse. Your Mastodon account isn't automatically also a PeerTube account [on the instance with the video being hosted]. I mean, my account on my Mastodon instance isn't an authentication to mastodon.social either.

This will only be solved if Mastodon servers also act as distributed authentication servers that other Fediverse servers accept. I agree we probably should move in that direction, but the hurdles will be ... immense.

@anderspuck @Gargron