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[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 27 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Holy shit.......I haven't tried it yet, but this sounds like one of the first ideas I pitched when I got here. One account, multiple platforms!

How do I do this? Can I do it with this account?

[–] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 16 points 3 days ago (1 children)

looks like its only compatible with mastodon and itself.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 14 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Well......that kind of defeats the purpose then.

It needs to be compatible with ALL the things. Lemmy, Mastodon, Pixelfed, Peertube, hell throw Bluesky in there! Get all the fediverse things interconnected. Otherwise, what is the point of having a service that connects all the things, and then making it compatible with none?

To be fair, it seems that the way it works behind the scenes is using SSO and OIDC (see https://docs.activitypods.org/app-framework/backend/application-registration/ ) so applications would need to support that before.

Lemmy only added this three weeks ago, https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2930 and pixelfed still doesn't support it directly as per https://github.com/pixelfed/ideas/issues/14

Likely the reason they went with Mastodon is because the support for the above is more mature there, but seeing as this is ActivityPub-based I think in theory it should work with Lemmy et al. (Doesn't rule out there being app-specific bugs and such that need to be ironed out, but that's often the case for new releases regardless.)

That said I'm having a bit of a hard time following the docs. If I'm reading https://docs.activitypods.org/architecture/authentication/ right you may not be able to use a lemmy.world account as your credentials - it seems like there's some configuration on the "application" end to enable this, meaning the lemmy.world admins would have to turn it on for this to work. (But if you had it turned on and successfully working elsewhere and then posted as that other account to lemmy.world, it would federate as usual.)

[–] dameoutlaw@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

That’s not true it’s compatible with anything running ActivityPub. It currently has build a Mastodon client as a demo that’s why right now you can use it with Mastodon. They built Mastopod in a week. Part of the pitch it showing devs how relatively simple it is to build apps on top of it. So if someone builds a Pixelfed, Lemmy etc app then you absolutely can use it

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

What if I just use the webpage?

[–] Blaze 1 points 1 day ago

Have you ever tried Mbin? https://fedia.io/

It has both Lemmy and Mastodon on the same website, and all notifications arrive in the same inbox

[–] RandomStickman@fedia.io 8 points 3 days ago (2 children)

That's how I thought the Frediverse worked at first lol

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago (2 children)

It's how it SHOULD work.

Like if I comment on someones picture on pixelfed, and someone replies to my comment, the notification should go to my inbox.

Then, if I post a video on peertube, and 5 people leave comments, those comments should go in my inbox.

And if 30 people leave replies to my Lemmy comments, I should have 30 comments in my inbox.

And that inbox? It should be one inbox. One account. If I see the notification for pixelfed, and I click the context button, my browser should take me to that pixelfed post. Then, if I click back, to the inbox again, and click context for the peertube comments, it should take me to that video.

That's what I imagined when I first heard of the fediverse.

[–] Blaze 3 points 3 days ago

Have you ever tried Mbin? https://fedia.io/

It has both Lemmy and Mastodon on the same website, and all notifications arrive in the same inbox

[–] Carighan@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

From a privacy perspective it'd be annoying if the default weren't one-identity-per-website, though. That's how it ought to work. If the user then wants to instead use a single one (akin to how OAuth logins allow you to use a single identity for auth purposes) that's on them, but it should not work that way without explicit enabling.

[–] Blaze 2 points 3 days ago

You're already better on Mbin, with both Lemmy and Mastodon on the same site

[–] Blaze 6 points 3 days ago

Glad you like it.

About testing it, not sure, hopefully someone more knowledgeable about it will jump in