@atomicpoet @pixelfed I know it’s incorrect but my first reaction to learning about Pixelfed was “oh cool I can try this app using my mastodon instance” and failed to login. Probably because the login UI is so similar to other mastodon clients.

Only afterwards it occurred to me that it’s “a different type of server that can talk to mastodon via activity pub”.

I wonder if separating the concept of “fediverse” from the apps themselves more strongly in the UI would help with this type of confusion. Fediverse could be a brand and all apps/services that use activity pub have a recognizable “Shares to Fediverse” seal. Users will then know that Pixelfed and Mastodon require different servers/accounts but both “share to the same Fediverse” and hence can see each others data.