I’m new to fediverse. For a long time I assumed it would be possible to have a single identity separate from the ActivityPub instance I’m using and tried to figure out what am I missing. Recently, I figured out that it was not the case. People generally have multiple accounts for interacting with different aspects of fediverse. It still bothers me a bit. So I did a search and found this note from 2018 that summarizes my thoughts very well.

I’m wondering if there are others thinking about this, or having multiple accounts has been accepted as the “correct” way of interacting with fediverse?

I think separating identity from the instances would really be a step forward, but as I said, I’m new to this and maybe there are things I don’t understand?

  • Lumidaub@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    Yeah, I was endlessly confused that I couldn’t use my social.technics.de account to login anywhere but Mastodon, as I’m pretty sure I had been promised. I suppose I eventually just accepted that I’d misunderstood some aspect of the concept but it did slow down my switch to the Fediverse considerably.

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      1 year ago

      I was super confused by that too.

      It’s worth noting, however, you’re often able to post the link to a post on another Fediverse platform into the search bar of a Mastodon instance and interact with it from there. I was able to do that for a Pixelfed post.