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1 year agodelegating authentication to another service.
one of the more commonly known options would be sign in with google, but this is also quite useful for providers hosting multiple services. a provider could host a service that handles authentication and then you only have to login once and will automatically get logged in for their lemmy, xmpp, wiki and other services they might be providing.
this doesn’t really change anything for how remote users are displayed, it’s a change to properly support hosting lemmy-ui on a different domain than the lemmy backend/api.
what are you referring to with mastodon short.domain handles?