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Using my kbin.social account to login into other fediverse apps (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by adonis@kbin.social to c/fediverse@kbin.social

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I was under the assumption that I can use one fediverse account across all ther fediverse apps, but this doesn't seem to be the case.

I.e. I downloaded the mastodon android app and tried to select kbin.social as the server, but it gives an error.

Same for jerboa, it won't let me connect to kbin.social, saying invalid credentials.

Is this something on the roadmap or am I simply wrong with my assumption?

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[–] a_mac_and_con@kbin.social 46 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Consider it like your email. You can use yours to communicate with people using any service, but you can’t sign into a gmail account with outlook.

[–] YMS@kbin.social 16 points 1 year ago (3 children)

That's a poor example, as Outlook basically is a mail client and you actually can use it to access your Gmail mails.

[–] 0xtero@kbin.social 34 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

I think they meant Outlook.com, the e-mail service, not Outlook the software.

[–] HeinousTugboat@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I also sign into Outlook.com with my Gmail account. It has its own inbox, which is weird, but hey.

[–] Unaware7013@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do you actually sign into Outlook.com with your gmail account, or are you just reusing credentials to sign into a separate account on Outlook.com? I'm not sure that the two systems federate, but I've got an Outlook.com account that uses my gmail email address as the username, but the account is completely separate.

[–] HeinousTugboat@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

Nah, like the other guy said, it's just OAuth. It's silly that they even let you do it, but hey, it is what it is.

[–] ChemicalRascal@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

That's using your Google account, with Google's OAuth, to get into an Outlook account — which is still weird and confusing, and IMO something Microsoft shouldn't have done because it'll confuse people, but hey.

[–] j4yc33@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

"cn, email, uid" was such a choice of Web 2.0 that confused the hell out of so many people.

[–] hardypart@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago

And this ambiguity is the exact reason why it's a poor example ;)

[–] YMS@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

I was thinking whether I should add a remark that you can add your Gmail account to outlook.com as well, but I didn't want to over-complicate it. In the end, both Outlook (the program) and outlook.com are mail clients of a sort, the latter being a webmail client.

[–] Romdeau4@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

Outlook.com is a free, personal email service from Microsoft.

From Microsoft’s website. Depending on context, Outlook can be their email service similar to Gmail or a Desktop email client similar to Thunderbird.

[–] HeartyBeast@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Perhaps they were talking about Outlook.com

[–] adonis@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

leaving out the technical aspects of what's possible and what's not... I get your point, and you're right.

I can't use the gmail android app to login with outlook credentials.