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Nik Gadermann
@nik.digital

I recently saw a friend set up their atproto account and realized how confusing the whole system is. I wish atproto had a much better cross-app login experience. Is there any work being done to unify/improve the UI/UX of the login flow? I think I recall seeing some ideas but I can't find them.

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Marc Bernard
@marcf.be

It’s very confusing indeed. I think I own my “atproto data” but then I access it through various apps. So where is my data really? I’m techy enough and have used a PDS browser but it’s so hard to understand what I really control. I would love to have a generic “AT mobile app” that manages my /2

Marc Bernard
@marcf.be

ATProto life. This should be the only place where I have a password and where I can decide which apps have access to my account and data. It would be the obvious place for a central login flow. Would this be possible?

Nik Gadermann
@nik.digital

Essentially, your PDS can do this. They could offer their own interface to your data and let you manage it right there, though management should mostly happen through app views. Technically the PDS also manages the central login but Bsky uses RPC calls to the PDS directly for some reason.

Nik Gadermann
@nik.digital

specifically, logging in to Bluesky with a non-bsky PDS account is weird. You're entering your password on a non-PDS domain, under Bluesky branding. Sometimes it detects the hosting, sometimes not. Shouldn't the login just always be handled by the PDS provider?

Nik Gadermann
@nik.digital

Another issue that came up was email verification. Bluesky showed a need to verify the user's email, but then the verification email comes from Eurosky. Clicking the button redirects back to Bluesky.

Nik Gadermann
@nik.digital

I wish the boundary between an account and an app was much more clearly defined. I've heard the term "atmosphere account" being thrown around but its not really used in a user facing way. It would be great if atproto had a unified name and badge similar to "Login in with Google/Apple/..."