For the longest time, I've been wanting to set up an email server with one of its main purposes being phone notifications.
Is there a fedi thing that I can use to do that?
You know how many server apps will ask for an email address?
Heck even immich asked for an email address! WTF! Ask me for my mastodon or my Lemmy address! So far these have been very reliable communication systems.
I guess the question is also a sort of statement. Why not add a fedi option for logins? Please???
Looks like they hacked something already for this using:
https://github.com/immich-app/immich/discussions/12842
It looks intimidating but probably same as spooling up a mastodon instance.
Development time and user support?
These are two pretty obvious reasons. It takes time and time is a limited resource. Therefore, time should be spent on solving impactful problems. Lemmy account login is extremely low impact, it's not a bad thing, it's just not something that improves immich for a large portion of its user base.
Another thing is user support. Since the many instances are self-hosted for the most part, and they will go offline, and they will go away forever in some instances. Users asking for support for this login type and asking for additional features to make up for this baked in instability.
Essentially. Low impact work that may drive a higher volume of support efforts.
It's the same reason some niche projects stop supporting Linux. Low user volume and disproportionately high "neediness" of those users.