We are thrilled to announce the official release of ActivityPods 2.0, a framework and platform that allows users to create a single account for multiple decentralised social applications while also providing developers with the tools to build and integrate these applications.
  • patrick@lemmy.bestiver.seEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Meh, just run several associated services and keep the same username on all of them. Nothing is interoperable, stop trying to force it. And a rogue app with bad user data handling practices is still going to leak your data, even if you store your copy of the data securely.

    My fediverse accounts are always “patrick@<service>.bestiver.se”. I currently am only running Mastodon/Lemmy and a few supporting services (e.g. a link manager - https://bestiver.se/@patrick), but I’m adding more as I get to them. Pixelfed, Peertube, Loops(?), Piefed…

    Adopting this ActivityPods thing looks like it will require each Fediverse project to make what I’d guess are fairly significant changes to their user data handling, and none of those projects are properly funded for this. In fact what this actually seems to be doing is asking every other Fedi app to build on top of their user data API.

    I applaud the attempt at building a new standard in the Fediverse, but I doubt it’s going to happen.

    • Laurin@feddit.orgEnglish
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      3 months ago

      I think there are some misconceptions here. ActivityPods does not build a new standard but actually implements existing ones instead (ActivityPub and Solid).

      So if you are a dev, you can write your own app on top of ActivityPods and it gives you the ActivityPub support almost “for free”. This gives you: (1) freedom of the users where they have their account when logging in to your app (like a sign in with google) but the user data is stored with the user’s personal online datastore (POD) not with the app (2) the possibility to deploy multiple instances of your app which can be useful to build communities independent of the account provider. Also (3) as an app dev, you don’t need to worry where to store users’ data.

      For an existing ActivityPub application (take mastodon for example, we have an alpha stage app called mastopod which is intended for microblogging), there is nothing to do actually. If someone builds an app that supports the same types, for example the Article or Event type of ActivityPub (/ActivityStreams), they can understand each others activities. You could for example imagine an app that functions like an aggregator for all types of Activities and all people you follow but you might want your blogging app to only show you Articles. And another app that is nice for organizing events.

  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Holy shit…I haven’t tried it yet, but this sounds like one of the first ideas I pitched when I got here. One account, multiple platforms!

    How do I do this? Can I do it with this account?

      • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        3 months ago

        It’s how it SHOULD work.

        Like if I comment on someones picture on pixelfed, and someone replies to my comment, the notification should go to my inbox.

        Then, if I post a video on peertube, and 5 people leave comments, those comments should go in my inbox.

        And if 30 people leave replies to my Lemmy comments, I should have 30 comments in my inbox.

        And that inbox? It should be one inbox. One account. If I see the notification for pixelfed, and I click the context button, my browser should take me to that pixelfed post. Then, if I click back, to the inbox again, and click context for the peertube comments, it should take me to that video.

        That’s what I imagined when I first heard of the fediverse.

        • Carighan Maconar@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          3 months ago

          From a privacy perspective it’d be annoying if the default weren’t one-identity-per-website, though. That’s how it ought to work. If the user then wants to instead use a single one (akin to how OAuth logins allow you to use a single identity for auth purposes) that’s on them, but it should not work that way without explicit enabling.

      • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        3 months ago

        Well…that kind of defeats the purpose then.

        It needs to be compatible with ALL the things. Lemmy, Mastodon, Pixelfed, Peertube, hell throw Bluesky in there! Get all the fediverse things interconnected. Otherwise, what is the point of having a service that connects all the things, and then making it compatible with none?

        • Dame @lemmy.mlEnglish
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          3 months ago

          That’s not true it’s compatible with anything running ActivityPub. It currently has build a Mastodon client as a demo that’s why right now you can use it with Mastodon. They built Mastopod in a week. Part of the pitch it showing devs how relatively simple it is to build apps on top of it. So if someone builds a Pixelfed, Lemmy etc app then you absolutely can use it