[-] gauffke@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago

Everyone, I want to say a big thank you! The example you gave me really helped me out. For the sake of clarity, I indeed only need 1 account, and I’ll stick to kbin for now.

The things I still keep in mind, and feel free to comment if any of this is wrong or stupid 😅

  • maybe it’s better having 1 login on 1 smaller and more local instance than a huge one like kbin.social. If I get it right, kbin.social is a great instance to minimise the « entry cost », but the best is to keep instances reasonably small. However, the smaller the instance is, the bigger the risk is that it disappears (together with your account).
  • on the short term, I will closely follow the developments of those apps!
  • on the longer term, I’m curious whether there is a benefit to have 1 single account for all fediverse services (like mastodon AND kbin). On the one hand, it makes perfect sense, with « distributed login ». On the other hand, putting all your eggs in 1 basket seems to be , on the client side, the opposite of what we want to do at server at side: spread! In that aspect, profile backups will probably be key!

Thanks again guys!

[-] gauffke@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Many thanks! Even if I must confess that since I’m confused on the question of Lemmy and kbin accounts, I don’t dare putting mastodon in the equation 😅

[-] gauffke@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Thank you so much for this! Very useful. I’m taking the opportunity to share a question I have:
https://kbin.social/m/fediverse/t/73562/Trying-out-Lemmy-and-kbin-And-the-fediverse-interoperability-has

I didn’t get any response but maybe my post itself wasn’t posted at the right place or the right format? Could a response to such a question be beneficial to other users via your FAQ?

Thanks!

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Hey All,
I’m an (old 😉) IT guy, very excited by the #fediverse and trying to find my way amongst various services.

As an example, I started gathering topics I like on a Lemmy account. Then, I got tempted to create different accounts on smaller instances and try out kbin.

I’d love that my « subscriptions » follow me, so that I don’t have to scan all my « magazines » and re-register from everywhere.

Can someone kindly help me on how I can achieve that? Apologies if the question is naive, but given the decentralised nature of those services, shouldn’t each user have a « local » trace of what they follow (for example on a local app), no matter the service, so that they get « their view », their « window » on the #fediverse?

Many thanks for the #fedihelp and again my apologies for the probably basic questions!

gauffke

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