Hi there! So I understand that federated systems can speak to one another and interact. My question I guess is should I be using my Mastodon account to log into PieFed, and PixelFed, and Bookwyrm? Or do I need to create specific accounts for all these services, just as I did before?
I understand that someone on Mastodon could potentially follow my PixelFed account and see my posts. But wouldn’t it make sense to have one single identity (if one wished) so it collected all of my stuff in one place? Just wondering if I am missing the point?
Sorry if I sound like an idiot here. I really love the idea of federated services, just want to make sure I am “doing it right” so to speak.
I wish. its more where you make your account is sharing with other fediverse sites along with most of the federation not needing a login. I wish it had been setup for members of the federation to be able to do someting like samly with the rest of it.
I am also kinda new, but it seems like it leans towards multiple accounts. Some lemmy instances don’t federate, so I have two.
And then it seems like there is a alot of style and content overlapp between pixelfed and mastadon. So I just have a pixelfed account and follow a few folks from Mastond there.
It would be weird to see pixel fed type posts on my lemmy feeds, but I guess that is just how am using it so far
I have an account in the threadiverse (lemmy, piefed…) and one in microblogverse (mastodon, gotosocial…). just because they behave so differently it is not a great ux to be using only one.
in some instances it does make sense though. if your are not a heavy lemmy user and primarily use mastodon you could just @ the corresponding community in your posts. they will then show up normally here and you can still interact with it. (following communities on mastodon looks bad on mastodons end though)
or if you just want to comment or like a video on peertube you could just do that from any instance. peertube accounts also show up on lemmy like normal communities which is neat.
so in short if your are not planning on using something heavily it is probably enough to just use an account you already have. but like with everything you should just try things out and see what works best for you. :)
I would recommand at least two accounts per fediverse type (type = microblog, threadiverse…)
So you can have a backup account in case your instance is down. Because currently there is no sync of our subcriptions, follows.
I hope we will have a kind of nomadic identity
to solve this.When I first joined Lemmy I made accounts on lemmy.world, sh.itjust.works and lemm.ee, since I didn’t have a solid idea of what instance to pick and wanted to have options. I was using the .world account when posting from a PC (because I liked Alexandrite) and sh.itjust.works on mobile. lemm.ee was a backup, though that whole instance ended up dying…
As soon as Boost started supporting piefed, I jumped ship and chose quokk.au simply because it’s the best name. Same reason I was on sh.itjust.works, really. My original two lemmy accounts are still around, but I don’t use them at all nowadays. They could come in handy if I ever need to make a lame joke about clones or bots or sockpuppets though.
You are asking a reasonable question that many ask.
Each account will be a unique and separate account on each instance. Instances do not share accounts.
Although you can, on some applications, authenticate with a federated account, like Google or even a Mastodon account, you still will have an entirely different account on the server.
The one account for all thing is often mentioned as a ‘selling point’, and as of now I think it’s rather ill-advised, setting up disappointment & possibly obershadowing a couple of nice things in that regard. A rather smooth part of the fediverse is that for example comments you read may stem from a lot of different corners, and writing one of those should work fine.
Regarding number of accounts you could experiment with a min or max approach first and then adapt based on your needs and experiences. You could re-use the first half of your handle, as the comment about identity suggested.
Create an account on mbin and it’ll allow seeing most of the fediverse. It has a microblog view, a thread view and a combined view. It isn’t picky about which services to connect to. I’m subscribed to peertube channels, people on pixelfed, and browse the threadiverse. It works well.
Lemmy can’t see mastodon, mastodon seems to have trouble seeing lemmy but can see mbin and piefed, peertube just sees peertube (although comments on peertube can come from all over the fediverse), pixelfed just pixelfed, and so on.
Someone mentioned nomadic identities and federated identities and I would love either of those. But for now, I recommend mbin.
Can mbin browse Lemmy/piefed? I would love to only use one app/login if possible. If one application can correctly view/post to each service - then it would seem logical to just use the one. I might switch to mbin If it can browse Lemmy content.
For sure !piefed_meta@piefed.social is in the list of “magazines” (communities as they are known on mbin) and more communities too.
Neither Lemmy nor PieFed are able to follow Mastodon users, but Mastodon is able to follow/subscribe to Lemmy/PieFed communities, post to them and talk to their users. Following a busy Lemmy community from Mastodon will make the community flood a Mastodon user’s feed, though.
Mastodon can follow any Pixelfed account and vice versa, but Pixelfed will see only posts with photos and Mastodon will see no more than 4 photos per post. Pixelfed is able to post to a Lemmy community, but I did not try to follow a comm from there.
In fact, Mastodon is able to follow any account from any fediverse app, but all the content from this will be reduced to the lowest common denominator: a post, maybe with formatting.
I use Piefed and Lemmy. You can use one or all or any combination thereof but being on all of them would be a lot to manage. I started with Lemmy and am probably going to end up using PieFed (or maybe Mbin) because they have more features and better interfaces.
Try them all out and see what works best for you, there’s no right or wrong answer here really.
