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by artursapek 4982 days ago
Because what the hell is Mozilla Persona? The Parse user base and the GitHub user base overlap a lot.
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callahad 4982 days ago
Arguably, Persona and Parse more than overlap: the supported user base of Persona is a proper superset of Parse's actual and potential user bases. :)

Persona works with any email address, and it's completely decentralized (albeit with a temporary, centralized fallback for bootstrapping)

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latchkey 4982 days ago
It doesn't matter really what 'Mozilla Persona' is. All that matters is that instead of implementing GitHub login, which is a single identity provider, sites should focus on implementing a global solution to login now that a viable one is available.

The general concept here is that the user just needs an email address and a password to login to any site. I'm tired of having to remember a bunch of usernames and passwords, aren't you?

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