The premise of ForgeFed is that you'd have one account but that one account would not need to be under the control of a corporation, you could have a private instance that you used interact with all open source software projects.
> The premise of ForgeFed is that you'd have one account but that one account would not need to be under the control of a corporation, you could have a private instance that you used interact with all open source software projects.
Yes, but maintaining my own private instance sucks more than remembering a handful of account credentials.
You don't need to. You get the choice. So if you want separate accounts on multiple sites, nobody stops you. If you want to run your own, nobody stops you. If you want to trust a given instance nobody strops you.
But likewise, if you don't want to trust provider A, but do trust provider B, nobody stops you *even if you want to interact with projects at provider A.
ActivityPub instances can relay messages, but generally they don't unless it's a dedicated relay that instances have to specifically sign up to receive messages from. Most instances are not subscribed to any relays, but only receives messages addressed to at least one user on that instance.
