Fediverse

I only have a kbin account,

but I can sub to

/m/memes
/m/memes@lemmy.ml
/m/memes@lemmy.world
/m/memes@anyotherlemmeyinstancethatexists.com

I don't need accounts on those other lemmy instances, I can sub to them from here.

For example, check out https://kbin.social/m/fediverse@lemmy.ml and you can click subscribe

which is a different instance of the post you made here at https://kbin.social/m/fediverse

You can see that https://lemmy.ml/c/fediverse is the same as https://kbin.social/m/fediverse@lemmy.ml

Everyone, I want to say a big thank you! The example you gave me really helped me out. For the sake of clarity, I indeed only need 1 account, and I’ll stick to kbin for now.

The things I still keep in mind, and feel free to comment if any of this is wrong or stupid 😅

• maybe it’s better having 1 login on 1 smaller and more local instance than a huge one like kbin.social. If I get it right, kbin.social is a great instance to minimise the « entry cost », but the best is to keep instances reasonably small. However, the smaller the instance is, the bigger the risk is that it disappears (together with your account).
• on the short term, I will closely follow the developments of those apps!
• on the longer term, I’m curious whether there is a benefit to have 1 single account for all fediverse services (like mastodon AND kbin). On the one hand, it makes perfect sense, with « distributed login ». On the other hand, putting all your eggs in 1 basket seems to be , on the client side, the opposite of what we want to do at server at side: spread! In that aspect, profile backups will probably be key!

Thanks again guys!

Generally speaking you only need one account for one type of fediverse. It would've been better if there's a way to migrate from one instance to another but that hasn't been implemented yet.

I'm not quite clear on what you are trying to accomplish...

You don't need accounts on other instances to access their content. You can subscribe to them from your instance, using your one account.

What you are alluding to is called "DIDs" = "Decentralized identifiers" (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decentralized_identifier).
The idea of most of these methods is that you identify yourself using a private key, while a public key is spread throughout the network.
If you want to log into a server on that network, the server would "challenge" your identity by encrypting something (e.g. a random number) using the public key, which you, the holder of the private key, can then decrypt and send back to prove you are who you say you are.

This method is already standardized by the W3C, but only has been for less than a year. You also have to keep in mind that all federalized social network systems (such as lemmy and kbin) are still in early development.

AFAIK there are no tools like that, yet. Keep in mind that Lemmy (and surely Kbin too as I think it's newer) are still very young applications (Lemmy is on version 0.17/18 currently). Development will probably accelerate now as it brought a lot of interest in developers and, as I understand it right now, the github is very active right now.

Mastodon does have migration tools to carry your follows with you, so it's definitely possible and are probably coming soon.

As i understand the account migration tools for Kbin are not ready yet.

On Mastodon/Calckey and other more developt project you can ex/import the list of your followers etc and even fully transfer an account from server to server.
We might need to wait a little for that feature beacause there are other things "more important" like stability of the server and moderations tools to combat spam etc

@gauffke@kbin.social Thanks for asking this; I had a lot of similar thoughts/questions and learned a lot from the replies!