Could this be an XY problem? Maybe instead of having several accounts and a way to log in everywhere easily, the problem is lacking interoperability? It’s hard to follow lemmy from mastodon, for example, but what if that was easy? Then you wouldn’t need both a lemmy account and a mastodon account, one would be enough to use different aspects of the fediverse.
Yes and no. Mastodon and Lemmy and Pixelfed and Peertube and FunkWhale and… have different uses but can be mixed. It would be a dream to have all in the same place so you can have a tab to upload images, another for videos, another for news, another for microblogging, another for DM (Matrix? XMPP?), another for short videos (Loops), … Just like FB has in some way.
It would be neat if different front-ends catered to different types of users who wanted different aspects, but that there was an underlying compatibility that also worked better. If I understand it correctly, mastodon has implemented activitypub in a way where each post doesnt hold a reference to the entire thread hierarchy (as lemmy has), so it’s difficult for mastodon software to construct hierarchies of replies in the same way, or at least it’s more expensive to traverse. There’s some differences in how groups are interpreted, as a hash tag or as a community. I’d rather be able to use one account and have the option to view activities in different ways, but now the implementations differ. That’s the interoperability I mean that doesn’t defeat decentralization.
How do you mean? To me a network is decentralized if there isn’t one controlling company or organization. In the fediverse, I can set up my own instance of mastodon/lemmy/honk/whatever. The fact that I can use honk to follow people on mastodon and interact with them in a smooth way is interoperability to me. I don’t need both a honk account and a mastodon account. This is a good thing imho. I can choose which software to run, or which home server to join, and still interact with people using different servers.
I’ll go for the technical side: having a distributed accounts manager so you only need one account to use every aspect of the Fediverse.
I thought that was part of the package when I made a lemmy account. Man was I disappointed.
Could this be an XY problem? Maybe instead of having several accounts and a way to log in everywhere easily, the problem is lacking interoperability? It’s hard to follow lemmy from mastodon, for example, but what if that was easy? Then you wouldn’t need both a lemmy account and a mastodon account, one would be enough to use different aspects of the fediverse.
Yes and no. Mastodon and Lemmy and Pixelfed and Peertube and FunkWhale and… have different uses but can be mixed. It would be a dream to have all in the same place so you can have a tab to upload images, another for videos, another for news, another for microblogging, another for DM (Matrix? XMPP?), another for short videos (Loops), … Just like FB has in some way.
It would be neat if different front-ends catered to different types of users who wanted different aspects, but that there was an underlying compatibility that also worked better. If I understand it correctly, mastodon has implemented activitypub in a way where each post doesnt hold a reference to the entire thread hierarchy (as lemmy has), so it’s difficult for mastodon software to construct hierarchies of replies in the same way, or at least it’s more expensive to traverse. There’s some differences in how groups are interpreted, as a hash tag or as a community. I’d rather be able to use one account and have the option to view activities in different ways, but now the implementations differ. That’s the interoperability I mean that doesn’t defeat decentralization.
this sorta defeats the purpose of decentralization…
How do you mean? To me a network is decentralized if there isn’t one controlling company or organization. In the fediverse, I can set up my own instance of mastodon/lemmy/honk/whatever. The fact that I can use honk to follow people on mastodon and interact with them in a smooth way is interoperability to me. I don’t need both a honk account and a mastodon account. This is a good thing imho. I can choose which software to run, or which home server to join, and still interact with people using different servers.