Comment by sunshine-o

8 months ago

Is there an independent OIDC issuer (outside of Google, MS or Apple) left one can create an account on?

I wanted to open an account on Tailscale without using my Github account the other day but couldn't.

I believe openid.net and Ubuntu One were providing this service a long time ago but they discontinued it.

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jogux  8 months ago

There at least a few others left, https://gitlab.com is one I regularly use.

Sadly the amount of money you need to spend on security & support for such a service does make offering such a service (particularly for free) not viable for smaller entities, there are some big economies of scale to make these things viable that work particularly well if you can also get big companies to pay for commercial offerings.