It would be great to see free code Titter apps like Fritter and Twidere adding full support for Mastodon, to help Titter refugees transition to the #fediverse. With an app that supports accounts on both, they could post and interact mainly in the 'verse, while still keeping in touch with their Titter friends while they encourage them to migrate too.
@strypey if the people behind those clients are convinced by open federated services, maybe they should display an 'ad' for fediverse clients (with atleast #ActivityPub and #RSS) and nudge people to move?
Can any AP clients register a new account on an AP server? Like how Conversations or Quicksy does on #XMPP servers. Maybe even opening invite links in the client, like I guess #Snikket does.
@mariusor #OpenID might be good (and #Hubzilla gave birth to #Nomad), but I was only asking about user registration in-protocol, like XMPP. Thanks for clarifying that #ActivityPub doesn't. I was only talking of social media apps that are multi-protocol (not a protocol that is versatile).
P.S: The more I learn about what got standardized as AP, the more it sounds like a grab-bag of features with consensus - like #CommonLisp. And some people complain about #XMPP, for fragmentation via XEP's?!
@tetrislife
AP clients don't really exist. Almost every service that currently federates through AP uses their own flavour of non-AP APIs for client to server communication. So a mastodon client can't be used for pixelfed.
What you want sounds a lot like having an instance behave like an OpenID auth server, but AFAIK nobody added OpenID capabilities to their services. I'm planning to do it for #FedBOX (a generic "plain" activitypub service) but must finish other things first.
@strypey