@_elena it’s possible to use mastodon/ ActivityPub oauth sign-in to register or even login to other platforms, without publicly linking the accounts. I just haven’t seen anyone do this.

@django @_elena this is only 1/100th of what is enabled by the way that single sign on works in the atmosphere though...

@liaizon isn't the rest (single identity, single data store) precisely what @_elena was referring to as profiling (ie the dangerous part)

@django @_elena mastodon doesn't do anything to protect your data from being slurped by anyone who might want it, so I find that argument a bit hard to believe. The sort of integration that has been enabled by seperating identity, data hosting and relay/search indexing makes the type of hodgepodge interoperability we have today in the fediverse look pretty unusable. I say this as someone who has been pushing for the fediverse for over a decade and who thinks VCs should be chased with pitchforks

@liaizon protocol wise there is authenticated Fetch, otherwise slurping might be individual server admin concerns (not saying they should be, but it requires other tools to the stack).
I think the point @_elena was pointing to is that this hodgepodge, Unusable Fediverse probably provides more friction to slurping than the structured nature of ATP.