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Phil King

@pixelfed I’ve often wondered why we can’t log in using our username rather than email?

22 January at 13:26 | Wall-to-wall | Open on utter.online
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pixelfed

@FelipeFelop That is a security feature!

Usernames are public knowledge.

By limiting authentication to a semi-private identifier like email addresses, we can reduce the impact of brute forcing passwords/account takeovers.

We hope that makes sense!

22 January at 13:32 | Open on mastodon.social
Phil King

@pixelfed I’ll have to think about that as by their nature email addresses are public.

22 January at 13:52 | Open on utter.online
pixelfed

@FelipeFelop They are only public if you publish them.

We are considering offering an opt-in setting to be able to log in with your username.

22 January at 14:08 | Open on mastodon.social
Phil King

@pixelfed Don’t most people let others know their email address, so that people can email them ?

Still thinking about it by the way.

22 January at 14:10 | Open on utter.online
pixelfed

@FelipeFelop Yes that's a good point, but at the same time, some people prefer to have private or service specific addresses using +suffixes, so that is why we are taking this approach!

22 January at 14:13 | Open on mastodon.social
Jae Bloom

@pixelfed @FelipeFelop Yeah I prefer masked or service-specific email addresses:

22 January at 17:50 | Open on mastodon.me.uk
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