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Do I really need one account per service? (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 months ago by BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world to c/fediverse@lemmy.world
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I thought one of the advantages of the Fediverse was to have one account but access to many services. Is this possible just not common? I already have a Lemmy account and Mastodon and I didn't want to start making more just to try out the other services.

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[-] rglullis@communick.news 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

It's not possible with the current approach of server-centric ActivityPub software. In theory, you can have one ActivityPub account to interact with all the other services, but in practice what happens is that the different server creates a new one internally and does not give you access to the private key.

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