website, with a personal opinion on why the Fediverse seems a bit complicated. It basically goes like this: Mastodon (and pretty much every Fediverse project out there) is based on the idea of using multiple websites.

This is not really a problem on the desktop, as you're using the browser to log in to the Fediverse. You go to mastodon.social or lemmy.world, maybe bookmark these, and you log in as normal (if you do not check the remember me option at login). Same goes with Facebook, with Xitter, with the

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website etc.

Alright, but the newer generations (not everyone, but many folks part of them) rather use apps instead. And what do these apps do? Present a login screen with fields only for the username and the password (at most).

What are the Fediverse apps doing? They are also asking for the website where they would log you in. So you go open e.g. the Mastodon app, then type the website that you need to access (which in many cases it might not contain the word Mastodon in it), and only then you can enter the credentials.

What am I asking now (especially app developers): Wouldn't it be better (if doable) to take some cues on how actually email (and XMPP for that matter) works, and ask the user for the username and the password instead in one go?

Like, everyone knows how to use email, everyone is familiar with that. And as I mentioned, XMPP is also doing it as well:

Gajim account login screen

Wouldn't it be doable?

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[–] marcos@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

What I understand the idea is to ask you to enter WhoLooksHere@lemmy.world in the username, and your lemmy.world password.

What I understand is happening (from the comment, because I don't use apps) is that the app first expects you to choose lemmy.world in a list, and then asks you about your name and password.

Honestly, I have no idea what is easier for anybody. Both seem very equivalent to me. Also equivalent would be asking the server, username and password on the same screen.

[–] Almrond@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

To be fair, I use Summit and it just gives you one login box with a drop-down menu that has all of the major instances in it. I think it's an implementation issue more than a design issue