My experience with the Fediverse has only been through Mastodon, through which I struggled to find a community I really gelled with. Either it was supper overwhelming with meme posts or NSFW, or it was too chill to the point of nothing. Or, it was hyperfocused like FOSS/Linux and became uninteresting after awhile. May try again, but I think I will explore the other fedisites like Plemora or Calckey to see if I like it better.
I love the pace of a forum. I grew up primarily with GameFAQS and some lucid dreaming forum, and honestly it was very formative in teaching me how to write and use critical thinking skills, as well as how to respond to a variety of temperaments. I stopped participating in online forums awhile ago, and while I loved Reddit as a resource, I never felt inspired to participate. In the same way, there are an incredible number of forums dedicated to a certain topic, and are extremely valuable, it would be annoying to make an account for all the things I am interested in.
I like what lemmy is becoming. Glad to find system that makes interacting with people enjoyable.
Yeah, I think what we want is complex and perhaps antithetical to the spirit of federation. We want the convenience of a single login like a centralized system, but the antifragility and diversity of decentralized services.
That is a clever workaround I will use. What would be nice is like an ActivityPub “identity.” I can see there being reasonable limitation like one account per service (Mastodon, Lemmy, Pixelfed, Peertube, etc). Then the administrator can choose to let someone in without people spamming accounts across the fediverse.