Is there a reason why all the services, that use the ActivityPub protocol don’t have a unified API?

None of the mastodon apps allow me to log in with a lemmy/kbin account.

Also none of the lemmy apps allow me to log in with a kbin account.

Even though kbin has both mastodon (microblogging) and lemmy (threads, communities) functionality.

Also, Pixelfed recently introduced “login with Mastodon”, but all it really does is just create a new user on it’s instance and copy over the mastodon followers and profile info.

Why can’t we just have one account to rule them all?

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    1 year ago

    Sorry but the autoformatting miscommunicated my statement… by @adonis I meant adonis @ kbin.social.

    And the domain is always part of the actual userhandle. Hence, there can only be one.

    Regarding OAuth/JWT, these aren’t new concepts. They’ve been around for while, if not decades.