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
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.
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
No, if you sign in with Mastodon, that’s just using your Mastodon credentials to create a Pixelfed account.
so would that mean my data would be on pixelfed.social?
Your data will be on whatever server you select. It’s not “sign up with Mastodon”, it’s “sign in with Mastodon”.
