The problem is that accounts are hosted by their fedi-instance. We need to use cryptography for platform agnostic authentication.
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PlasticPigeon@lemmy.world 9 months ago
HOPING TO EXPLAIN BETTER:
Sorry. Perhaps the thoughts were not clear, but have watched a lot of videos and even Wikipedia makes it seem like they are all social networks and that one can follow / post / reply on the other networks:
It isn’t about following everything and everyone, but about not wanting to have a Pixelfed account to follow a photographer, or not needing a Lemmy account to follow interesting topics, or not needing a Mastodon account to follow a blogger / writer. It is perhaps then a bit oversimplified on the “intro to the fediverse” videos / posts that’s been seen on the web. Was hoping to have one single account on any of the above, and then just interact from there, and not needing an account for every single one of them.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fediverse
danhab99@programming.dev 9 months ago
PlasticPigeon@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Thanks for the feedback, but unfortunately what you said is way above this guy’s pay grade, so it’s not making sense. :-(
But you sound like you know how it works, so thanks for your knowledge and help in the fediverse. :-)
haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com 9 months ago
You‘re using something that is very much in alpha/beta phase and it works great for this. Check the release numbers. As of today, I updated my lemmy instances to 0.19.2 - can you see the zero in front? This means we‘re pioneering.
Now go post about how awesome it is that we have all this stuff without having megacorps shitting on us every day like on facebook, insta, xitter and reddit. ;)
If you have any fun in tinkering, start reading about docker and make your own instance. Its not going to work out of the box in every scenario but you‘ll learn a lot and maybe even help make the fediverse better.
Have a good one.
PlasticPigeon@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Hi there, thanks so much for your nice explanation and taking the time to respond. :-)
Two questions, and please understand that these come from someone with a non-dev background:
According to wikipedia Lemmy is 4 years old and in alpha/beta, but Mastodon is 7 years old. The AT protocol was only introduced in 2018, and most of these networks have implemented it. And on another Wiki page there are images showing how they can all talk and connect with one another. So is this not the case? Lots of people have commented with the fact that they don’t want them all to connect, as it will muddy the waters. But with the reading done, it gave the impression that these networks can all interact, if they’re federated of course.
And this might be a terrible question: Would it be possible to install say Mastodon, Kbin and Friendica instances on one server if it’s just one person that’s playing around to test the behind the scenes and see what they can do? Assuming you could then link them to sub-domains: eg. Kbin.websitename.com Mastodon.websitename.com, etc?