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Identity in the Fediverse (mattball.io)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Mhm, you could just add a link to your homepage to your bio which could help associate your various accounts to yourself.

Myself I had used several accounts to access several instances on mastodon, but soon after I realised that I could just follow tags and users across instances anyway, so why keep them alive.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Having several instances of Mastodon is probably not that big of an issue. I would expect one of them to win over time. But it's not straight forward to use a Mastodon account when interacting with lemmy, PeerTube, PixelFed, etc. If I could get the identity (my handle) from a single place (like some neutral non-profit) and could use it on everything, that would be better. But I guess that's not happening any time soon.