It’s my understanding that Mastodon and Lemmy work together well in the Fediverse. I CAN see my Beehaw account from Mastodon, as well as other user accounts, but have difficulty understanding how I can specially find and follow Beehaw and/or other Lemmy instance content via Mastodon.
The reason for my inquiry is two fold:
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Using Beehaw in my browser on iPhone regularly causes Safari to crash. As there’s no viable iOS app for the platform as of yet, this greatly limits my ability to interact with Beehaw.
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I’d like to use a single interface for both Mastodon and Lemmy if possible. I’m currently using Ice Cubes and really enjoy it.
Has anyone else figured this out or am I misunderstanding the concept?
It feels really weird to go to one website and enter my credentials for another website. How secure is that? I guess whatever app I’m using could be storing credentials instead of using an API, but the fact I can see a URL and enter the wrong creds from my password manager feels off.
Yeah, after reviewing the site I came to the same conclusion. It’s an interesting concept but there’s no way to know what’s happening in the backend.
It’s as secure as using a 3rd party apps that you didn’t compile yourself. Wefwef is open source and you can host it yourself if you want.
Which is why Lemmy needs OAuth for instances, and working 2FA. Seems like they at least want OAuth.
Then just self host it, concern eliminated
Regarding security, the unique thing about this is that PWAs are dynamically loaded and updated from the distribution site which is typically any arbitrary website. The question then is the website in question and the server it is on secure. Seems like this is the downside of PWAs, not distributed though a normal distribution channel which has some extra security and controls. Not sure an arbitrary website is that secure just in general. Do not know either way.
The rest is same as using any app that you did not write and audit. Do you trust the author and an app without a lot of history? Not saying anything bad about this PWA. In fact, it is developing a lot of good feedback so probably fine. Who can tell for sure about any app for that matter.
Just how I think about it.
That’s a very good point. I removed it and changed my password on Beehaw. Lemmy needs to implement OAuth if it hasn’t yet.