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That's what the original OpenID (from back in the LiveJournal days) was supposed to be right?

"Host your own identity"

Yeah, it never really got off the ground though because incentives weren’t aligned. Everyone wants you to sign up on their site for data hoarding reasons, not to use an identity from elsewhere.

When I first learned about OIDC, I thought.. I can log in to Google and Apple using MY identity? Sweet.

Turns out, you can support Google and Apple accounts in your app, not the other way around. Well..

(Still a win though, especially if you need to gate your app with a login.)

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