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  • jdaviescoatesJ 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)

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    murgero
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    wrote on last edited by murgero
    #9

    @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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    • murgeroM 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?

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      #10

      @murgero said in Pixelfed:

      Though I THINK I followed successfully?

      Indeed you did:

      following.png

      I use Cloudron with Gandi & Hetzner

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      • jdaviescoatesJ jdaviescoates

        @murgero said in Pixelfed:

        Though I THINK I followed successfully?

        Indeed you did:

        following.png

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        murgero
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        wrote on last edited by
        #11

        @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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          #12

          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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            wrote on last edited by
            #13

            @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!

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            • doodlemania2D 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!

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              murgero
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              wrote on last edited by
              #14

              @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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                murgero
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                wrote on last edited by
                #15

                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.

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                • murgeroM 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.

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                  doodlemania2
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                  wrote on last edited by
                  #16

                  @murgero said in Pixelfed:

                  @hyper@social.mobiledads.live

                  following new alias now!

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                    murgero
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                    wrote on last edited by
                    #17

                    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?

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                      #18

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

                      A life lived in fear is a life half-lived

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                      • murgeroM 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?

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                        wrote on last edited by
                        #19

                        @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.

                        I use Cloudron with Gandi & Hetzner

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                          #20

                          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.

                          A life lived in fear is a life half-lived

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                            doodlemania2
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                            wrote on last edited by
                            #21

                            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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                            • scookeS 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.

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                              murgero
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                              wrote on last edited by
                              #22

                              @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:
                              d851cc10-37a3-49a3-8c87-258b252e5e04-image.png (Not my image)

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                              • doodlemania2D doodlemania2

                                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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                                murgero
                                App Dev
                                wrote on last edited by murgero
                                #23

                                @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

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                                  wrote on last edited by
                                  #24

                                  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.

                                  A life lived in fear is a life half-lived

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                                  • scookeS 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.

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                                    murgero
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                                    wrote on last edited by
                                    #25

                                    @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.

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                                    • murgeroM 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.

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                                      girish
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                                      wrote on last edited by
                                      #26

                                      @murgero said in Pixelfed:

                                      The issue here is federation is broken

                                      Do you know what is needed in the Cloudron package to fix this? Or is this an upstream app issue? I couldn't really find any information about pixelfed + federation on their site. If there is a link, I would love to see it.

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                                      • murgeroM 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.

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                                        scooke
                                        wrote on last edited by
                                        #27

                                        @murgero Ok, so normally I could click on a Follower, see their images, and simply press Heart, like Instagram? That makes more sense. But without that, PF as it is on Cloudron is for viewing only. I wish I could code and help out, add that missing federation bit.

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                                        • girishG girish

                                          @murgero said in Pixelfed:

                                          The issue here is federation is broken

                                          Do you know what is needed in the Cloudron package to fix this? Or is this an upstream app issue? I couldn't really find any information about pixelfed + federation on their site. If there is a link, I would love to see it.

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                                          murgero
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                                          wrote on last edited by
                                          #28

                                          @girish I think webfinger on the root domain may help out here. But I am not 100% versed in ActivityPub. That said, there is a reported federation issue when using activitypub upstream: https://github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed/issues/2221

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