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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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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

You don't need multiple accounts on each service to federate. So essentially if you wanted to communicate with a user, say from a Lemmy server on Mastodon you can do so. That's federation.

Essentially the main things you are missing really from not joining another service is certain features, interface and a different focus and the like.

Right? so Peertube might have a completely different interface from Mastodon and Lemmy. And more of a specific focus on video related features.

edit: you would need a users handle, and then go to the service you use, like Mastodon and you can search for that user.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Can I do it all from just a Lemmy account?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

That's something people could try experimenting with. I will see if I can find out what can be done with Lemmy, regarding Peertube and Mastodon. But I would asume that not all features from Masodon or Peertube would translate smoothly to Lemmy strictly because it's a different software with a different focus.

Federation just means you can communicate with users from another server. Even if it's a different 'platform' like Lemmy to Misskey, Mastodon to Peertube.