Could Discourse offer a StackExchange-like SSO/Federated login service?

[sunjam (james.network)]

@alexweissman

I know there have been other conversations about this issue, but they seem to be overly complicated in scope and gotten off track.

That is a different sort of federation, connecting Discourse to tools like Mastodon related to posts and replies (as opposed to logging in).

You’ll want to checkout Discourse SSO, which is being discussed in various topics around meta.

DiscourseConnect - Official Single-Sign-On for Discourse (sso)

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