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Why not work towards one account on one server that works everywhere?
The only reason I have several accounts on the fediverse is that I can't subscribe to everything anywhere, any time, from my preferred platform. If lemmy was able to subscribe to mastodon posts, I'd need nothing else.
Unfortunately, when I raised this issue on github one of the devs seemed agitated that it didn't work properly after he said that it was fixed, and nothing more happened to my knowledge so I don't think it's going to happen anytime soon.
To me I feel there are 2 separate uses of the fediverse: creation or consumption. Consumption is technically universal, I can use any fediverse account to follow any other account (with some software exceptions that you pointed out). Creation of content needs to be done on local accounts (at least right now). To create a top level post on a Lemmy community, you need a Lemmy account. Same thing when uploading a video on a Peertube instance. Hence my suggestion for a way to properly link accounts across the fediverse. That way it's easier to "verify" that the account that uploaded videos on tilvids.com is the same person that posts it on lemmy.ml
@coldhotman Friendica comes pretty close, only thing I'm missing is the ability to create link posts to Lemmy.