Lots of questions about :PixelFed: Pixelfed right now! 😅
The most common Pixelfed questions are answered on the Fedi.Tips website at this link:
➡️ https://fedi.tips/pixelfed-photo-sharing-on-the-fediverse
If you want to find people to follow on Pixelfed, there's more info here:
➡️ https://fedi.tips/finding-people-to-follow-on-pixelfed
Here's how to import your data from Instagram to Pixelfed:
➡️ https://fedi.tips/how-do-i-import-my-instagram-account-data-to-pixelfed/
If you want to receive DMs from strangers on Pixelfed, you need to activate that option:
➡️ https://fedi.tips/dms-arent-getting-through-to-me-on-pixelfed-what-do-i-do
[#]FediTips #Pixelfed
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p.s. Please do read the link in the post, it really does answer a lot of common questions about Pixelfed! 🙂
Here it is again:
➡️ https://fedi.tips/pixelfed-photo-sharing-on-the-fediverse ⬅️
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p.p.s. A lot of people asking how they can crosspost from Mastodon to Pixelfed. The answer is this:
You do not need to crosspost from Mastodon to Pixelfed. Your posts on Mastodon are already visible to people on Pixelfed, because Mastodon and Pixelfed are both part of the same social network.
(The same in reverse, posts on Pixelfed are visible to people on Mastodon.)
Some of the accounts you see on here are Mastodon, some are Pixelfed, some are other types, but you can follow all of them.
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p.p.p.s. People asking about the "log in with Mastodon" option on Pixelfed, the short answer is: you probably shouldn't use this option.
Longer answer: the "log in with Mastodon" option on Pixelfed doesn't actually do what it claims. What it actually does is create a new Pixelfed account for you, and copies over some of the information from your Mastodon account onto that new Pixelfed account.
You end up with two separate accounts (Mastodon and Pixelfed) without any connection between them.
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@FediTips “You end up with two separate accounts”
But don’t You end up with that anyway? You need to create an account on a Pixelfed server regardless.
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@mez @FediTips
It depends on your preference.
If you want to separate your photo uploading and interacting activities from your text posting activities, then yes, you need to create two accounts: one on a Mastodon server, one on a Pixelfed server.
If you have an account on a Mastodon server and you want to follow accounts on a Pixelfed server, you do not need to create an extra account. The ActivityPub protocol enables you to interact with accounts on different server types.
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@NoOnesRival @FediTips Right, so if I want to actually use Pixelfed, for either nicer image type post viewing or creating, I need the separate account on a Pixelfed server. I can’t use the Pixelfed app or web app with my Mastodon account.
I don’t know the protocol enough to know why not though. I thought the AP entities for Pixelfed and Mastodon were basically the same, just with differences in creation and what part of the post was highlighted.
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@mez @NoOnesRival @FediTips Bookmarking this cause I have the same questions.
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@mez @NoOnesRival @FediTips It's because your credentials and login information are stored by the server that hosts your account (eg mastodon.social). That server can either run Mastodon or PixelFed, but not both at the same time. So if your profile lives in Mastodon, you can't log into pixelfed, even tho your posts show in both!
Similarly, you can have a Gmail, but not log in on Outlook web. Even tho emails can be sent to both, the Gmail server saves your password information.
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@AguiarPhys @NoOnesRival @FediTips But I can use gmail.com or Thunderbird to send emails from my gmail account. It’s a different interface. How come I can’t use Pixelfed (the app) to send and look at image content from my Mastodon account. Is the content actually different between the two services?
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@mez @NoOnesRival @FediTips That's a good point, considering there are hundreds of 3rd party apps for mastodon that connect to your account and pull all the data from the server it should be possible to make an 'instagram-looking' app for any fediverse account. I think you're correct! I wonder if this is something pixelfed might work on now that they have official mobile apps.
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@AguiarPhys @NoOnesRival @FediTips Okay, so a choice not a protocol limitation. It would be handy to have the option to use the same account.
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@mez @AguiarPhys @NoOnesRival
There's nothing technically to stop an app communicating with all kinds of different server types.
The app Fedilab for Android does just this, it is a sort of swiss army knife of Fediverse apps.
In the case of the official Pixelfed app, the developers have chosen to only make it communicate with Pixelfed servers. But you don't have to use the official app, you can use third party apps (including Fedilab).
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@mez @NoOnesRival @FediTips That is not possible with ActivityPub, your identity and social graph is tied to a server that implements a specific app like Mastodon or Pixelfed.
What you describe is how ATproto functions where the user data and social graph are seperate to the appview. So you can use the same account with the same followers in different types of applications.
With ActivityPub you can only consume multiple appviews but not post in their specific context.
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@timonsku @NoOnesRival @FediTips Can you go in to more detail? I get the servers are different and hence the identity is unique there, but is there something in AP that prevents the PixelFed apps from allowing login with a Mastodon server and only displaying & creating posts with photos? (ignoring PF's differentiators like more photos per post)
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@mez @NoOnesRival @FediTips because there is no mechanisms in AP to facilitating something like OAuth and there is no way to write the schema of one application into the database of the account that was created for another application. Account and application is inherently tied to each other in AP services like Mastodon on Pixelfed. You would need some API for that which would allow for that and something like that is not standardized AP because accounts are assumed to be tied to applications.
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@mez @NoOnesRival @FediTips That we can render posts from other applications is mostly down to them formating things in a compatible way but that does not always work so you have types of content that can't be federated to other application types if those applications don't have a content schema that could map to it. A simple photo post of a single photo on pixelfed can be a standard post without a text on Mastodon but if they were to do stories that could not really translate over to Mastodon.
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@mez @NoOnesRival
The AP protocol is for communications between servers, sort of like how 5G networks allow communications between phones. All it does is connect servers, it doesn't store any info about those servers or determine how those servers operate.
Servers on the Fediverse are deliberately independent, without any central database which could fall into the wrong hands. That's why accounts are tied to particular servers.
Different types of Fedi servers can do totally different things.
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