Pixelfed
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@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.
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@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)
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@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?
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@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.
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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.
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@doodlemania2 huh - I don't see your follow.
I am going to reconfigure my instance with mastodon so we can test actual federation.
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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.
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While they use the same protocol, MD and PF are different so statuses I wouldn't think would share cross tools. No?
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@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)
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@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 moreAll 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
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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.
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