feat: add "create new account" button to PDS page

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🔗 Linked issue

#3021

🧭 Context

The current /pds page only has a link to PDS MOOver, with no way to directly create a new account. To create a new account (rather than migrating) a user needs to open the "Connect" menu, select "Connect to Atmosphere", then click the button in the modal.

📚 Description

This PR adds a button alongside the PDS Moover one that calls authRedirect in the same way as the equivalent in the modal.

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📝 Walkthrough

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Added a new “Create account” option on the PDS page alongside existing join and migrate actions.
  • Account creation now returns people to their current page after sign-up, preserving the selected language.
• Documentation
  • Updated English interface text with the new “Create account” label for the PDS join section.
• Chores
  • Extended the i18n schema and locale definitions to support the new translation string.

Walkthrough

This PR adds a create-account action to the PDS page, with a new button, redirect handler, translation string, and locale schema entry.

Changes

PDS create account flow

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Create account handler and button wiring app/pages/pds.vue, i18n/locales/en.json	Adds handleCreateAccount, which calls authRedirect for https://npmx.social with account creation enabled, current route redirect, and locale; wires a new primary ButtonBase in the join section to this handler; adds the pds.join.create_account translation key ("Create a new account").
Locale schema field i18n/schema.json	Adds the pds.join.create_account string property to the locale schema.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant User
  participant PdsPage
  participant AuthRedirect
  participant NpmxSocial

  User->>PdsPage: Click "Create a new account"
  PdsPage->>AuthRedirect: authRedirect(npmx.social, create:true, redirect, locale)
  AuthRedirect->>NpmxSocial: Redirect with create + locale params
  NpmxSocial-->>PdsPage: Redirect back to route.fullPath

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Possibly related issues

• PDS page should have a "Create new account" button #3021: Adds the PDS page create-account button and supporting redirect flow described in the issue.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4

✅ Passed checks (4 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly matches the main change: adding a new account creation button to the PDS page.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description accurately describes the new button on the /pds page and its authRedirect behaviour.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
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