self host pixel fed
from neatobuilds@lemmy.today to selfhosted@lemmy.world on 20 Jan 20:09
https://lemmy.today/post/22478952

Hello I am looking to self host my own pixelfed account just because I like self hosting and like sharing pics.

I saw there is a sign in with mastodon option on the pixelfed site and was curious if I host a mastodon instance instead, could I then use pixelfed with the same account?

I have a lemmy, mastodon, and pixelfed account right now and from doing a few experiments it seems mastodon has the best federation with both pixelfed and lemmy as far as commenting back and forth so it would be pretty neat to use a mastodon instance if that is possible

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Ulrich@feddit.org on 20 Jan 20:25 next collapse

No, if you sign in with Mastodon, that’s just using your Mastodon credentials to create a Pixelfed account.

neatobuilds@lemmy.today on 20 Jan 20:35 collapse

so would that mean my data would be on pixelfed.social?

Ulrich@feddit.org on 20 Jan 20:42 collapse

Your data will be on whatever server you select. It’s not “sign up with Mastodon”, it’s “sign in with Mastodon”.

voklen@programming.dev on 21 Jan 01:34 collapse

You can use pixelfed with the same account, but to do this you will have to go onto your mastodon instance and follow a pixelfed accounts from there and they will appear in your Mastodon timeline. Here is a little explanation of the “log in with Mastodon” option.

neatobuilds@lemmy.today on 21 Jan 01:51 collapse

Ah that explains a lot, i had added a mastodon account to pixeldroid app so I thought it was the same thing as login with mastodon but after trying it some more todag I see the limitations of using a mastodon account as a pixelfed, more like just a bunch of mastodon posts showing up that don’t load right