In the typical web marketing infrastructure, a company signs up for an email account for private messages, Twitter/X account for microblogging, YouTube account for video sharing, and Reddit for forum discussion.

With the Fediverse/ActivityPub model, currently a typical user might register a PeerTube account for video sharing, Mastodon for microblogging, and Lemmy for forum discussion. But the data under all those is the same infrastructure, right?

Facebook as a mature software platform has areas of its app for private messaging, microblogging, and video-specific content, all using one user account.

Is it likely that Fediverse apps will evolve toward a similar structure, where a person or company would only need one account and could push out content of all types there, and interact with others’ content with one account?

  • mikeel@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Excuse my ignorance here. To what extent can this problem be simplified with DIDs or Decentralized IDs, rather than “federated accounts”.

    Take the example of Filpboard. I signed up to integrate #mastodon with #bluesky. Supposedly, they have AI to process two disparate systems. The result: Nada. Why? Because I have to put some verification HTML in a website.

    I have a “domain name handle” that should allow two independent information sources to communicate. The same account, or DID, needs to work on both systems. I don’t see that.

    https://www.w3.org/TR/did-core/