In response to Bray’s toot, Evan Prodromou — one of the creators of ActivityPub, who is currently writing an O’Reilly book about the protocol — noted that this “is also the argument for using the ActivityPub API.” He described the API as “an open, extensible API that can handle any kind of activity type — not just short text.”

This gets to the nub of the issue. The fact that I can’t use my Mastodon identity to, for example, sign up to Pixelfed is not actually an ActivityPub issue — it’s because the two applications, Mastodon and Pixelfed, each require you to create an account on their respective products. What Prodromou is suggesting is that, technically, you can use the ActivityPub API for account access.

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[–] kindenough@kbin.social 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

Yeah I wondered how I could register the same username for kbin social and kbin earth. Which Rick am I talking to? The pickle one? Anyone can assume your identity

[–] Blaze@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Email works the same. rick@gmail.com and rick@outlook.com are probably different people

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 9 points 7 months ago

Or @rick on twitter and @rick on Instagram