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Emelia 👸🏻
Emelia 👸🏻
@thisismissem@hachyderm.io  ·  activity timestamp 7 days ago

In which, Blaine Cook ( @blaine ) explains "What is OAuth?" in the framing not of standards and specifications, nor in technical terms, but instead in this framing:

> “What I need is to understand why it is designed this way, and to see concrete examples of use cases that motivate the design”

https://leaflet.pub/p/did:plc:3vdrgzr2zybocs45yfhcr6ur/3mfd2oxx5v22b/

#oauth #oauth2 #oidc

What is OAuth?

Wherein I [try to] answer a seemingly straightforward question: "WTF is OAuth, anyhow?"
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