Yeah, it’s not SSO, that’s why I wrote “of sorts”, but the post is precisely of how Pixelfed will now allow Mastodon users to log into a Pixelfed instance with their Mastodon account, meaning they will not see the current view of pixelfed as looked from a Mastodon interface but should look as if the user had a pixelfed account, since they are using the pixelfed interface.

It’s not released yet, so I have not tested it, but hopefully soon.

You can view Pixelfed from Mastodon, but the interface of Mastodon is more focused on text microblogging than on image sharing. By federating the logins they are kind-of making an SSO of sorts, so now you can use the full pixelfed interface but your suscriptions and history stay on your Mastodon instance and just federate over to the pixelfed instance you are login into.

That’s how people new to the fediverse were expeting it to work (myself included when I joined last year), so it’s nice to see it starting to shift that way.

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Very cool! Thanks!
Suggestion: add Brave Search (search.brave.com) as an option as well. It’s a smaller search engine but they have their own index and does not track users.

@ono there are relay services to help with that. I am going that route.

@ernest Yunohost was a great suggestion, installing it right now in a brand new VM. I’ll play with a lot of the applications and see which ones I like best. Thanks for that I wasn’t even aware of it.

I hope Kbin makes it there soon too. I like this interface better than Lemmy as a reddit replacement.

@Trekman10 I get that, but it seems it federates with Mastodon, Lemmy, Diaspora, Peertube and many other platforms, kind of having one account to rule them all… LOL

@ernest Thanks for the feedback! I’ve been reading and learning a lot. I am starting to get a better grasp of the Fediverse. Will definitely be playing soon with selfhosting an instance or two for myself and family.

@GeekyOnion Thanks! That’s really helpful!

On this topic, I now stumbled upon Friendica, it seems it can federate with pretty much everything else, not sure about the Facebook kind of UI, but there seem to be different templates.

Anyone has experience with it? Pros or cons?

@vibrantleaf Thanks! Just the kinds of info I was looking for.

@Trekman10 not sure on kbin but I don’t think so. On lemmy it’s not possible for sure. But that’s why I want to begin now, I only have a few comments on each, and this is my first post. I was part of the twitter and now reddit migrations.