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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[–] PiratePanPan@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

No, thank you. I prefer having 25 different Fediverse accounts despite them all being able to communicate with each other and 10 Mastodon alts because I didn't like my instance.

[–] cooopsspace@infosec.pub 7 points 7 months ago

You forgot the "/s"

[–] Xeroxchasechase@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

But you could still have it. For me it's really discouraging to have a different profile for each service on each server