I wonder what we could do to make this process less painful. Of course centralisation is not a good solution either as it comes with its own flaws in different ways.
@w4tsn yeah, that thought crossed my mind. Also the gnome gitlab lets you log in with other popular login methods ... after you create an account there.
Maybe just an open-source, not-for-profit run SSO solution with minimal data collection would alleviate the "Naaaaaarffff yet another login" problem.