Removing identity from the content servers does pose some interesting challenges.
If I'm hosting "peertube minus identity" as a service, where accounts are created an managed via a long list of external oauth2-like providers, I suddenly have a lot of moderation concerns.
I would want to make sure I have, at minimum, the same control over which people can upload arbitrary content to my server as I currently do.
You are right, much of the experience I want is already possible on a media consumer level.
I think the one major friction point I see as a poster is that audio and video content is not something micro blogging services like mastodon are equipped to handle, and text content is not something peertube is built for.
So I need to fragment my identity and if people want to follow me they need to do so in multiple places.
Another thought is that much of this is a client side UI/UX issue.
I use fedilab because it has options to filter images into a instagram-like view, free of text. It also supports hot swapping accounts, and has some minor support for viewing the local timeline of different servers.
Its good, but still doesnt quite fit the grand unified vision I have.
I really like these ideas and ive thought about them a lot in the past year or two ive been on fedi.
I want an SSO provider for an account, then I want to seamlessly subscribe to communities sharing a certain type of content.
I'm not too worried about the user complexity; in theory its not much harder than, say, discord.
I create an account with identity provider A, then subscribe to peertube, pixelfed, mastadon, and Lemmy communities.
Behind the scenes, its all using the same identity keys.
I know activity pub is complex and forgive me if I'm oversimplifying the hard stuff, but I dont see why we can't have this.
