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?

  • adonis@kbin.socialOP
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    1 year ago

    aah, thx for the detailed explanation… So everyone doing their own thing, kinda defeats the purpose, or at least makes it harder for app developers to take care of all the different apis

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      1 year ago

      Identity federation isn’t the main point of the Fediverse, though. Federation is just meant to distribute content and facilitate communication. So you can have a book blogger manage their reviews and bookshelf on BookWyrm, a vloger can upload a video on PeerTube, and a city government can share water outage updates on Mastodon, and someone can interact with that content from a single interface and account of their choice.

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      1 year ago

      Yes exactly. If we want universal apps, we need to convince implementers to use the C2S. I also think the huge push to get native apps for kbin/lemmy was way too premature. I’m worried that’s gonna lock in their current APIs and make transitioning to the C2S even harder.

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        1 year ago

        I think we could start with an api alongside the existing one, and have it downward-compatible until everything is migrated, bit by bit.