I wish this was more of a Single Sign-On approach instead of making it easier to just create a Pixelfed-account from a Mastodon account. It’s dope that it’s even attempting to find Mastodon accounts I follow who are also on Pixelfed in order to just easily follow them.
I wish nomadic identities were a thing. It’s a concept I found out about recently, where you could have one Fediverse account for all services, and just login to whatever you want with that preexisting account. Sort of what you describe as a Single Sign-On approach.
What I think is cool about this way of doing things, is that you could host an ActivityPub server, and login to any instance, even if it’s not your own. For example, I could login to lemmy.world or mstdn.social with my sopuli.xyz account. Or at least that’s what I understood.
It would probably get me to use the rest of the fediverse, tbh. Right now I only use Lemmy.
Yep! Many people discover this short coming on their own. Which means it’s basically a universal and objective failure of the fediverse at the moment.
Something to be concerned about is that I don’t think there are any structural incentives for developers to solve a problem like this. Instead, the incentive structure is geared toward people making their own platform as a silo or making an app for particular platform that has a good amount of users on it. The federating protocol is there, sure. But the financial livelihood of platform developers is dependent on donations from users of their platforms. How many are or even want to be “fediverse developers”?
I think there’s a pathological state that’s been settled into in this regard and I don’t see much talk or action against it.
It’s actually just all your Mastodon follows, not people on Pixelfed. Due to the federation, pixelfed and Mastodon accounts can interact how you’d expect.
I see, I just checked and yeah, you’re right. Thanks for clarifying!
Does pixelfed have an app or is it a browser only thing?
There’s a few third-party apps, with Pixeldroid being the most popular, and their official app is in beta.
Awesome, thank you so much. I want to leave Instagram and just found out about this one the other day.
The official app, despite being in beta is really nice. @dansup has done an amazing job of it in a short amount of time.
@donut4ever @igalmarino Last I heard, @dansup and the @pixelfed crew were working to get the Pixelfed app into the Android and iOS app stores. There’s currently a version of the app that you can sideload if you so desire…
I just installed their official app. It’s in beta, but it is so lovely. Reminds me of Instagram when it was first launched. I’m sticking with the official app. Learned my lesson from lemmy. Too many apps is no good. Lol
PixelDroid for Android. It’s available on F-Droid too
Thank you. I found it, but I think I’ll just use the official app for now and see. I like the vibe on pixelfed. It’s pretty much the old Instagram.
It would be interesting if when creating account on a website, along with “Signup with Facebook” and “Signup with Google” there was a “Signup with Mastodon”. Not sure if that would be good or bad.
Off topic, but since this is an post about pixelfed and I can barely find anything about this issue elsewhere: is there any way to get hashtags you’re following to actually show up in your feed? All I’m getting is a handful of accounts I’m following, and since they don’t have much content, it’s a pretty limited experience.
