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Can someone explain to me how it makes any sense for Pixelfed to be a thing that has its own accounts, rather than being an ActivityPub client whose GUI just happens to be image-focused?
@jwz It's a distinct failing of the system, I think. In theory, you can follow mastodon accounts on pixelfed, and vice versa, but the affordances live with the base service/UI that you sign up for. There's no federated identity where (e.g.) a mastodon account can be used to give you combined access to a pixelfed (or other) service.
It's one of the reasons I haven't signed up for any other Fedi services -- I can't be arsed to manage multiple logins.
Mastodon, Pixelfed, Friendica are 3 examples (of many) of completely different software platforms that serve completely different intents and have different features sets that mirror/mimic their contemporaries like Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook. The difference is that the former share a common backend component that allows you to interact with each other across the various platforms, whereas the latter do not.
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You don't sign up on all of them. You sign up on the one, or few, that provide the services and features you're interested in using. And you use that, or those, to interact with anyone on any activitypub based server, running any of the dozens and dozens of different activitypub based software platforms.
That's not a flaw of activitypub. That's its primary feature.
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If you enjoy a Twitter like experience and want that kind of an experience on the fediverse, you sign up for a mastodon account or one of the other Twitter style micro blogging activitypub platforms.
If you want more of a picture focused Instagram style experience, sign up for a pixelfed account.
The beauty of the fediverse is that it's really whatever you want it to be. You got options. Which can be overwhelming, for sure. I think it's great though.
or, hear me out: you sign up for one account, like email. you can then use whatever apps you want with that same account.
mastodon, pixelfed, etc don't all need to be separate accounts on separate servers. just like we don't need a separate Web for chrome vs firefox -- they let you browse the same Web.
