The existing Mastodon API uses OAuth 2, right? Seems like you'd ... • Aaron Parecki

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Eugen https://mastodon.social/@Gargron • Jul 7
IndieAuth sounds interesting as a more generic way for federated applications to allow app registrations https://indieauth.spec.indieweb.org/
The question is how do we adapt this after our current, extremely similar but somewhat different system has been in production use for around 2 years #mastodev

The existing Mastodon API uses OAuth 2, right? Seems like you'd be able to add this on top and still also support the existing behavior without any changes. You'd get the benefit of auto discovery and global client IDs. Maybe we should chat about this at the next w3c call?

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