I made this change to increase software support for Lemmy Federate. This way, besides Lemmy and Mbin, other software that supports FEP-1b12 such as NodeBB, Piefed, Guppe, Friendica or other custom implementations (like blogs) will be able to register to Lemmy Federate.
However, I must admit that this change makes the login mechanism more difficult. But I believe it was worth it.
An example authentication flow:
- Enter instance host and click login
- Add given record to DNS, and click login again
- At this point, API key becomes reusable between logins.
If you experience any problems please let me know.
You switched to Piefed? It’s still registered as Lemmy instance in Lemmy Federate. This is an edge case I haven’t thought of.
I can fix this manually but if you haven't transferred keys, switching on the same domain didn't seem healthy to me.
Update: fixed it.