hey there

I created a mastondon account years ago. never did much with it

recently, just before the Reddit diaspora, i joned lemmy.

now exploring the fediverse i created accounts for pixelfed and bookwyrm

now, I’ve got several accounts, to several services that are using activitypub

can i use one login, say my mastodon identity, to access the other services on different instances?

  • 👍Maximum Derek👍
    6•1 year ago

    Identity seems to be an issue with the fediverse. I keep 2 active accounts, one on a Lemmy server and one on a Mastodon one. It gets extra confusing when I use Mastodon to post to a Lemmy community. Then, back in Lemmy, I see me but it’s not me but it is me.

    • Kafanzi Max. PraetorOPEnglish
      1•1 year ago

      so you can!?!

      I can see my lemmy.ml uer from mastodon and even communities (called groups on there).

      From the smell of it it seems something that mastodon allows, for specific federated services, but it’s not out of the box for all activitypub fediversed services/instances

      Edit: what i find strange is that there is a clear way to verify websites to me, with a rel=me relationship. But there is no clear way to say “those other federated identities are the same of me”.

      I get that the rel=me way is well known and well used, but allowing for this concept in the protocol of a federated service seems to be important.

      At least, I care about the concept of digital identity and I would think for a distributed and federated and ever evolving network like the fediverse, this would be quite a common place to be

  • Alien Surfer
    2•1 year ago

    Me too. I have accounts on the following. It’s insane. I find I only really use mastodon, lemmy, and kbin often.

    • mastodon
    • lemmy
    • kbin
    • pixelfed
    • peertube
    • matrix
    • bookwyrm
    • diaspora
    • friendica
    • pleroma