@swiley it looks like openid connect does try to bring back some of the cowboy logins. i peeked in the spec briefly and saw that it uses the ~/.well-known RFCs to help sites figure out how to talk to them, so OICD might allow us to bring back fedi-logins.
if its a co-collaborator or a

user i don't mind putting them in LDAP.
what i don't want is what happened with solderpunk and i where i had to just flag them down on fedi because i couldn't post to their gitea and there was no real obvious avenue to open a ticket
i thought about setting up request tracker behind a mailbox so you just send an e-mail to do this on iceworks, and you can also just email me directly on iceworks, but this isn't really documented and it should be.
iceworks' UX is presently terrible and that's not ok.
most of the identity services seem to be cloudshit or big java. i came across Ory which is in Go, so that's not bad ( https://www.ory.sh/ ), but i haven't tested it.
i'm also not yet 100% sure that OICD supports arbitrary logins like OpenID did, since the things i come across mention its an extension to OAuth which typically requires you to have pre-exchanged client keys (which means you'd only be able to do a pleroma/mastodon login if the site specifically likes your instance.)