Using my kbin.social account to login into other fediverse apps

I was under the assumption that I can use one fediverse account across all ther fediverse apps, but this doesn't seem to be the case.

I.e. I downloaded the mastodon android app and tried to select kbin.social as the server, but it gives an error.

Same for jerboa, it won't let me connect to kbin.social, saying invalid credentials.

Is this something on the roadmap or am I simply wrong with my assumption?

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It's confusing, I know 😅 You use one account to log in to a platform you like and it should[¹] give you access to everything else through Federation.

[¹]: ActivityPub is the underlying protocol used by the majority of federated platforms, so it should work albeit on a basic level, because some platforms don't support advanced text-formatting, others are arranged in threads, etc. so, YMMV.

For this reason, I find it useful to have one account per platform.

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