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by joshontheweb 3293 days ago
This can be pretty annoying for users and developers though. If the user forgets what account they last used and selects a different one next time then it ends up creating an entirely new account unassociated with the first. If I ever do social integration, I require a plain old email based login first and then allow them to connect their social accounts to it.
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One way around this (from the developer's side) is to federate together different identities for a user using something like dex [1], and segregating your login and signup paths, so attempts to login will never create a separate account.

[1] https://github.com/coreos/dex