It is tracking, sure, but there is a tradeoff. Some people might not care that github knows they have a lemmy account, and for those people they don’t have to manage yet another login, so they are more likely to participate.
Heck Lemmy could build in federation identity into lemmy, so it doesn’t matter your on lemmy instance X, you can still bring your identity from instance Y and not have to post from your home instance.
The more options the better.
tonnert@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It can be done optionally, right? I fully agree that creating an account, which (ironically) cannot be federated using one of the big IDPs, creates unnecessary friction.
TheInsane42@lemmy.world 11 months ago
To be honest, when I see what happens to reddit with the normies left behind, I see the lack of authentication via a big brother company as a pro.