Feature Request: Universal ID

[Scionax]

A universal ID would solve:

• No longer have to remember usernames / handles / passwords across sites.
• Easily switch to anonymous profile across all content.
• Webmasters no longer need their own login systems, email handling, password forget, and all other login-related systems.
• Websites don't need private messages; communication across the web is easily globalized (e.g. "chat.open_panel()")
• Forums could easily integrate your registered user, avatar, etc.
• Can drastically simplify online communication, forum handling, etc, and focus on the content that actually matters.
• Easy to have opt-in feeds, mailling lists, etc. Each website can prompt / request; approval gets confirmed on registered hub.
• Websites don't need to store passwords; they just need an automated hash coordinated from the ID server after user gives confirmation; i.e. how single sign on works.

~90% of web content could be automated with truly universal ID. This, in my opinion, needs to be the foundation of any new internet protocol. If you add this, it unlocks potential that is utterly wasted with our current system.

[Xeno333]

This could truely build a next generation web protocol! It could be slightly complex to implement if a site owner will not use it.

[Smartlinuxcoder]

i could make it easily, and also I'm planning to make federated messages (for example between chat.yap and chat.it)

[Scionax]

i could make it easily, and also I'm planning to make federated messages (for example between chat.yap and chat.it)

Heck yes! If this gets implemented, this project (in my eyes) goes from an interesting project to a potentially revolutionary piece of software that deserves my attention.

I didn't include it in the original list, but this also unlocks options like a consistent set of URLs for everyone, like an email, pm, social feed, your avatar or personal image (particularly useful so that you just have one image that is viable across the web), etc. For example, you have: {handle}.avatarimages.bizz and {handle}.email and {handle}.chat, etc...

[Smartlinuxcoder]

Well, it's open source, so you can basically do whatever you want 🗿

[Smartlinuxcoder]

I made the universal ID api it is hosted at https://auth.smartlinux.xyz Here is the repo with the documentation https://github.com/Smartlinuxcoder/sso-api @Scionax