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Identity in the Fediverse (mattball.io)
submitted 1 year ago by canpolat 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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[–] canpolat 1 points 1 year ago

I'm not against people willingly creating multiple account for different purposes. But, as a developer, I would like to have a single account that I can use both for Mastodon and lemmy. Then I can create another one to use as a bird watcher. But I would like my bird watcher account to seamlessly interact with all the different services. I hope that clarifies my point.