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this post was submitted on 27 Jul 2023
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No, because the model for ActivityPub is very different than how OAuth is used for authentication. What you describe is like wanting to log in to hotmail using your gmail account, and being able to send and receive e-mail from your gmail address.
It is a fundamental to ActivityPub that a user exists at a domain, and content coming from or going to that domain is sent from / to the relevant server at that domain.
Federated login is a good idea, and it's been done, both in closed and open forms. Combining federated login and federated ID over ActivityPub would fundamentally change ActivityPub.