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@maegul The fact each of these AP "networks" is really separate and requires different accounts is a major problem. I don't want to manage 5 identities (Mastodon, Lemmy, PixelFed, etc.). I want one, with everything.

@Crell Yep. It's an issue, and, IMO, a decent critique of the design of the fediverse that the user is in some important ways a second class citizen.

@maegul Each AP-based network is *just* different enough to make a single, pluggable, "do all of them" server/client prohibitively hard.

I love the concept of AP, but the implementation leaves so much to be desired...

@Crell Yep. I've lost track of it but I saw not too long ago a *diaspora lead dev criticising AP for not being clear/opinionated enough and therefore leading to what you complain about.

Now, the way it turned out for *diaspora is they didn't adopt AP and now hardly one uses it.

But I've since suspected that there's a real criticism there that will forever haunt and constrain the fediverse and maybe even lead to it recentralising around mastodon.