maegulMay 3, 2023

@fediversenews

One of the interesting things I've seen on the fediverse:

blahaj.zone run both a #calckey and #lemmy instance under the same domain/community. (I learnt this by running into @[email protected] on lemmy, who is also @ada on calckey)

See:
https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/
https://blahaj.zone/

I don't know how effective it is in practice, but it sure seems like a great way to foster more diversity and richness in the fediverse experience, especially if some integrations can be built, like mutual ids.

Blåhaj Lemmy - Choose Your Interface

Show threadAdaMay 3, 2023
@maegul @[email protected] @[email protected] It's worth nothing that the lemmy instance was not spun up to be effective, it was spun up because I wanted to try it out :)

And now it's a part of my daily routine and has a small but growing user base :)
Show threadKevin DavidsonMay 3, 2023
@ada @fediversenews @[email protected] @maegul Are they completely separate or do they share a user database? I’m pretty sure Mastodon will let you use an existing external LDAP service as the authentication backend, but I know nothing much about Lemmy. That would be a cool way to solve some people’s gripes about multiple Fediverse IDs. Have a cluster of Pixelfed, Mastodon, Lemmy, Bookwyrm all sharing a user list. One account, lots of features.
Show threadAdaMay 3, 2023
@MetalSamurai @[email protected] @[email protected] @maegul They're separate. It's an interesting idea to tie them together to a central identity, but as a user rather than an admin, I'm not sure I'd be happy to use a feature like that unless identities were truly mobile.
Show threadmaegulMay 3, 2023

@ada @MetalSamurai @fediversenews @[email protected]

What exactly do you mean by mobile here? Like, following any one of your accounts results in following all of your accounts? Something else?

Show threadProbably Paul 🌍
@maegul @ada @MetalSamurai @fediversenews @[email protected] I think "mobile" here means changing servers without losing content. Currently you can't clone an account, only take your followers elsewhere and start from scratch. Calkey and Hubzilla, on the other hand, have fully nomadic identity.
May 3, 2023 at 11:42pmTusky
Show threadJupiter RowlandMay 4, 2023
@Probably Paul 🌍 @maegul @Kevin Davidson @Ada #CalcKey has full #NomadicIdentity?

As in, you can have identical clones of your account/channel simultaneously on multiple instances? They're kept in-sync with each other in real-time? All clones display the same Webfinger ID which uses the domain of the primary instance? And you can make any clone your new primary instance?

Because this is what nomadic identity actually means.

The only projects known to me that support it are #Hubzilla, #Streams and the now-defunct #Zotlabs projects #Redmatrix, #Osada, #Zap, #Misty a.k.a. #Mistpark2020 and #Roadhouse, basically everything created by Mike Macgirvin after #Friendica.

In fact, I've got my doubts that full nomadic identity can be pulled off without having multiple channels per account/login. And this is another feature which the projects mentioned above have and the ActivityPub-based microblogging/macroblogging/"social network" projects don't.

Or are you referring to how easy it is to move your entire account with everything on it from one instance to another? That isn't what nomadic identity means.
Netzgemeinde/Hubzilla

Show threadProbably Paul 🌍May 4, 2023

@jupiter_rowland Thanks for clarifying. I was referring to easily being able to migrate all content to another instance, but I do use Hubzilla for my blogs because I can clone and mirror them and make it nigh-on impossible for anyone to delete them.

Clearly, I was conflating the two.