When discussing Fediverse, you sometimes hear the idea that you shouldn’t need different accounts for different platforms.
The “why can’t I comment under Youtube video with my Twitter account”.
In Fediverse it already works to some extent. You can comment under PeerTube video with your Mastodon account, and you can participate in Lemmy thread with your Mastodon account.
What is this functionality called? Does it have specific name?
It’s probably not “single sign-on” and not “federation” from what I understand.
And to what extent is it implemented? Is there some way to participate in Lemmy thread with your PeerTube account?
Is there any progress being made on implementing the initial idea of using any Fediverse account with any other Fediverse platform?
What is the name for the problem of implementing or mapping the platform-specific functionality? As in, neither Mastodon nor PeerTube have the interface for upvoting and downvoting posts.
Wouldn’t it be easiest to implement Fediverse-wide SSO (as in, log into Lemmy interface with your Mastodon account) instead of figuring out some funky mapping and patform interactions?

  • Kierunkowy74@kbin.social@piefed.zipEnglish
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    2 hours ago

    For interaction with different platforma it’s probably called interoperability. For its current state:

    • Much of other platforma interoperate with Mastodon, but only at Mastodon’s lowest common denominator of “tweets” and links with lead. Lemmy communities are treated like “bots” reblogging anything posted to it,
    • Almost any of not-vanilla-Mastodon allow Markdown formatting and Mastodon will show it normally. The same with posts over default 500 chars limit. You can read posts longer than you are able to write,
    • Pixelfed deliberately narrows this denominator only to posts with images. However it allows posts with more than 4 images, but only not-vanilla-Mastodon instances will be able to see all of them. Posts can be geotagged, but AFAIK only Vernissage, Friendica and FediHood are able to swe these,
    • Mastodon users can tag a Lemmy community to post to it. However you can not mod a comm from there,
    • MBin allows to interact with content both from microblogging like Mastodon and with Lemmy. Lemmy interoperation is full, one with Mastodon lacks e.g. polls. Blog posts from WriteFreely and federated WordPress are shown in full. Unfortunately MBin does not work with Ghost,
    • PieFed embraces and extends the format of Lemmy with e.g. flairs and polls. It also includes the best PeerTube compatibility among the Threadiverse (as federated reddit clones may be called). It has recently included events and support of following users from microblogs like Mastodon.