I think, this might be due to the currently ongoing federation issues.

I too see mostly fediverse, nostupidquestions stuff in my feed, but once the dust settles, and a better suggestion algorithm comes into pleace, I’m sure the feed will be much more diverse than now.

leaving out the technical aspects of what’s possible and what’s not… I get your point, and you’re right.

I can’t use the gmail android app to login with outlook credentials.

I think we could start with an api alongside the existing one, and have it downward-compatible until everything is migrated, bit by bit.

aah, thx for the detailed explanation… So everyone doing their own thing, kinda defeats the purpose, or at least makes it harder for app developers to take care of all the different apis

also i just tried kbin.social/u/@[email protected] and it gave me a 404, knowing phoronix being a reliable tech source.

Edit: but @sometestuser works as intended

sure, but I thought ActivityPub is a common protocol they all use to allow interoperability.

Like an API, where there are users, posts, images that can be created, liked and boosted.

I.e logging in to a mastodon app would allow me to create /browse madtodon-specific posts (microblogs), and logging in to pixelfed app, would allow me to only upload/browse images, etc…

what they could potentially do is to post Ads across the fediverse, and their sales-pitch could be something along the lines “hey look, for just 20 bucks a month, your AD can be shown on 1500 other domains and not only on FB.com”

thanks, but no thanks