Discussion on: When signing up or logging into an app, do you prefer OAuth (authentication w/social media account) or email sign up/sign in?

[Dustin King]

Email.

• I don't want a bunch of apps to have permissons to my social media accounts.
• I don't want apps to depend on me being logged in to social media (that's why I've so far never logged into dev.to from my phone).
• At some point I might want to delete social media accounts for mental health reasons.
• Plus, if I don't care about the app, I want to be able to use a throwaway address from mailinator to sign up.

[Michael Lee 🍕]

These are some great points Dustin. Thanks for sharing.

I've also leaned towards using email as well for many services that I use. Mainly because of your first two points.