Pixelfed

[girish]

I am still trying to figure out federation setup. If someone has insight into this, please leave a note here. It looks like we have to setup webfinger or equivalent?

[murgero]

@girish isn't webfinger a thing already enabled in pixelfed? The only caveat I can see is pixelfed being installed to a subdomain but users are using main domain as username:

Instance URL: pixelfed.example.com
Username: @murgero@example.com

The above requires webfinger to translate from the main domain afaik.

As for federation - I believe just enabling ActivityPub (which it is already in the app afaik) it should just work so long as the URLs match:

Instance URL: pixelfed.example.com
Username: @murgero@pixelfed.example.com

If someone else has an instance, can they PM me their profile URL? I'll try to follow you to see if federation is working properly.

[jdaviescoates]

@murgero I've whacked up a test instance at images.uniteddiversity.coop so you could try jdaviescoates@images.uniteddiversity.coop (the only user I've created so far)

[murgero]

@jdaviescoates said in Pixelfed:

jdaviescoates

I tried tagging you - but it fails it looks like. (Tag for you AFAIK should be @jdaviescoates@images.uniteddiversity.coop)

Edit: Though I THINK I followed successfully?

[jdaviescoates]

@murgero said in Pixelfed:

Though I THINK I followed successfully?

Indeed you did:

[murgero]

@jdaviescoates Safe to say federation is technically working, idk if it's working well tho - your server didn't poll my profile it looks like.

[stantropics]

I read on the pixelfed matrix channel that in order to receive new posts you need to follow a person (obviously) and some person of that instance needs to follow you so that instance knows that your instance exists.

[doodlemania2]

@murgero said in Pixelfed:

@jdaviescoates@images.uniteddiversity.coop

Followed you also - took the search box a few tries to pull up your profile, but it finally kicked in!

[murgero]

@doodlemania2 huh - I don't see your follow.

I am going to reconfigure my instance with mastodon so we can test actual federation.

[murgero]

Alright, please also follow @hyper@social.mobiledads.live - this is a known working instance of Mastodon, and I can debug connections from pixelfed as well.

[doodlemania2]

@murgero said in Pixelfed:

@hyper@social.mobiledads.live

following new alias now!

[murgero]

I am following back everyone that follows me. So if you need to debug federated follow, you can follow me as well!

I also just sent out a status update via mastodon so can any pixelfed users report if they see it?

[scooke]

You can add me too! @scooke@lenote.eu.

[jdaviescoates]

@murgero said in Pixelfed:

I also just sent out a status update via mastodon so can any pixelfed users report if they see it?

Can't see it.

[scooke]

To be honest I'm not getting what the heck is going on. I can see you are following me @jdaviescoates but when I click on you from within my Pixelfed dashboard, which brings me to your site, and see your pic and try to like it, I see that I am now not at my Pixelfed and apparently need to login to your Pixelfed instance to do anything. ? And I see nothing about Mastodon in my Pixelfed dashboard either.

[doodlemania2]

While they use the same protocol, MD and PF are different so statuses I wouldn't think would share cross tools. No?

[murgero]

@scooke No, you should see their status / images in your own feed. ActivityPub is federated, decentralized sort of like bittorrent in a way. Everyone (or everyone you are connected to) gets a copy of the actor (in this case it's a pixelfed image status update)

Ex:
(Not my image)

[murgero]

@doodlemania2 Both use activitypub and as such are compatible with each other. However the Unstable app here for Pixelfed in Cloudron's appstore has broken federation and it doesn't work more than like 80% of the time right now.

Mastodon
GNU/Social
Pixelfed
Pleroma
Nextcloud via the social app.
and more

All use activitypub - Here is a large, but incomplete list of different service, scripts, and servers that can communicate via AP: https://github.com/BasixKOR/awesome-activitypub

[scooke]

It seems broken that I have to log in to someone else's Pixelfed instance to Like an image though. Or is this a 20% case of the federation not working? Seems counterintuitive to have to join someone's PF to interact with them.

[murgero]

@scooke said in Pixelfed:

It seems broken that I have to log in to someone else's Pixelfed instance to Like an image though

You're doing it wrong. ActivityPub doesn't work like that - The issue here is federation is broken.

There is no requirement to register and login to another server to send a like on an image in activitypub.