Hi there! So I understand that federated systems can speak to one another and interact. My question I guess is should I be using my Mastodon account to log into PieFed, and PixelFed, and Bookwyrm? Or do I need to create specific accounts for all these services, just as I did before?
I understand that someone on Mastodon could potentially follow my PixelFed account and see my posts. But wouldn’t it make sense to have one single identity (if one wished) so it collected all of my stuff in one place? Just wondering if I am missing the point?
Sorry if I sound like an idiot here. I really love the idea of federated services, just want to make sure I am “doing it right” so to speak.
Create an account on mbin and it’ll allow seeing most of the fediverse. It has a microblog view, a thread view and a combined view. It isn’t picky about which services to connect to. I’m subscribed to peertube channels, people on pixelfed, and browse the threadiverse. It works well.
Lemmy can’t see mastodon, mastodon seems to have trouble seeing lemmy but can see mbin and piefed, peertube just sees peertube (although comments on peertube can come from all over the fediverse), pixelfed just pixelfed, and so on.
Someone mentioned nomadic identities and federated identities and I would love either of those. But for now, I recommend mbin.
Neither Lemmy nor PieFed are able to follow Mastodon users, but Mastodon is able to follow/subscribe to Lemmy/PieFed communities, post to them and talk to their users. Following a busy Lemmy community from Mastodon will make the community flood a Mastodon user’s feed, though.
Mastodon can follow any Pixelfed account and vice versa, but Pixelfed will see only posts with photos and Mastodon will see no more than 4 photos per post. Pixelfed is able to post to a Lemmy community, but I did not try to follow a comm from there.
In fact, Mastodon is able to follow any account from any fediverse app, but all the content from this will be reduced to the lowest common denominator: a post, maybe with formatting.