Is there anything I can do, or is that account lost forever now? Resetting the password doesn’t work (natch). Not a huge deal, but it’s upsetting because I was modding a community from that account. Any tips/contacts would be appreciated. Cheers.
*** update: as per commenters suggesting, tried resetting password for that account once again, and I was successfully able to log in, go to my settings, then remove 2FA, and all seems good now
It’s scuffed but it does work. The problem is that Lemmy hands you a TOTP Key URI directly; what you have to do is manually enter the information from that URI into an authenticator app that supports advanced parameters (you need to be able to set the issuer, hash algorithm, and secret, which are all present in the URI).
Once you do that then the authenticator app should generate the correct TOTPs, which is what I currently have with Bitwarden. Why it’s like this instead of the normal 2FA flow everyone’s used to… nobody knows.