Forgive my ignorance, but for those of us new to the "Fediverse", how do people use different types of instances? Is it common for people to have different accounts for different types of ActivityPub instances? Even though Mastodon can federate with, say, kbin or Pixelfed, would I need to set up new accounts on the latter services to use them?
@keet It depends on what your intentions and needs are. If you want to only interact with the content, you can just choose the platform that fits your needs better, join an instance, and interact with other intance in and outside your social media of choice through that account.
But if you want the full functionality each can offer, having accounts on each or some of the federated social media platforms may be a good choice.
take into account that sometimes intances on certain type of social media may limit certain content that are central to other style of platform. For example some mastodon/misskey/calckey/akkoma/pleroma instances have limits on media applouding. In cases like that is better (and even suggested) to have pixelfed, peertube, and funkwhale accounts where you can post images, videos and audio (respectively) and just share the links in the microblogging servers instead of saturating say microblogging servers.
@keet While you can follow Pixelfed and Bookwyrm accounts from say Mastodon and get the updates on your Mastodon home page, you cannot use the full functionality of Pixelfed and Bookwyrm from your Mastodon account. So it makes sense to create separate accounts for each of these services. I personally have an account on Mastodon, Bookwyrm, Pixelfed and now kbin.
@keet generally each #ActivityPub implementation has it's own web application frontend and if you want to try that frontend you need to have an account on an instance running that software on the server. Each one will have it's own unique features which can be nice. For example; #Calckey has "Antennas" which are kinda like Twitter's "Saved Searches". Some servers have a limit on how big a video you can upload, so a #Peertube account is nice to have for bigger videos.
@schizanon Thanks for the reply...and for the follows! It really helps to demonstrate your point here. I'm still kinda new to the whole fediverse thing, but the more I use it, the more I "get" it.
I mainly use mas.to and calckey.social. I keep thinking that I should use one for being nice and the other for being spicy but I haven't decided which one yet 😆
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