I was under the assumption that I can use one fediverse account across all ther fediverse apps, but this doesn’t seem to be the case.

I.e. I downloaded the mastodon android app and tried to select kbin.social as the server, but it gives an error.

Same for jerboa, it won’t let me connect to kbin.social, saying invalid credentials.

Is this something on the roadmap or am I simply wrong with my assumption?

  • asteroidrainfall
    1•1 year ago

    That’s interesting. I’m not a huge supporter of it, but wasn’t account portability one of the reasons that Bluesky created their own AT protocol?

    • 0x1C3B00DA
      2•1 year ago

      I don’t know anything about Bluesky, but this has nothing to do with account portability. ActivityPub doesn’t easily support account portability; your account is always on a single server. There are mechanisms to move your account to another server, but they’re incomplete (you can’t migrate your existing posts, etc).

      The C2S is about allowing native apps that can work with any ActivityPub implementation. So in an ideal world, you could use a single app to access lemmy, kbin, calckey, pleroma, hubzilla, mastodon, wordpress, etc.