I was under the assumption that I can use one fediverse account across all ther fediverse apps, but this doesn’t seem to be the case.

I.e. I downloaded the mastodon android app and tried to select kbin.social as the server, but it gives an error.

Same for jerboa, it won’t let me connect to kbin.social, saying invalid credentials.

Is this something on the roadmap or am I simply wrong with my assumption?

  • stopthatgirl7@kbin.social
    15·
    1 year ago

    It’s not that you can log in to all the sites with one login, it’s that you can access content from all the sites from one account.

    If you have a kbin account, you can follow mastodon users from kbin, and they will show up in your microblog feed, looking like a native kbin post.

    If you have a Mastodon account, you can follow kbin instances there, and posts appear on your Mastodon Home feed looking like native Mastodon posts.

    To follow someone on either site, you copy their address or a URL into the search field of the respective site, and follow/subscribe to it like you would a native account. (That’s what the “copy URL to Fediverse” option is under the “more” option - it’s a URL to paste into the respective search fields so it pops up on that site.)