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✨ Sneak Peek of Sign-in with Mastodon

We're almost ready to ship this ground breaking feature which vastly improves our onboarding experience for Mastodon users!

It will be shipping later today after I (@dansup) get some sleep, sorry it's a bit late, this is a complex feature.

#pixelfed #signInWithMastodon

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BeAware :fediverse:

@pixelfed @dansup oh no! 🤣I signed up on your official instance last night with a new BeAware account🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️

Farshid Hakimy / فرشید

@pixelfed @dansup it would be nice if ActivityPub profiles would provide a username for another ActivityPub service. That would mean instead of following their Mastodon, you could follow their Pixelfed when setting up your account.

Tassoman
How the login page can be translated into visitor's language?
Any hint how to change default image?
Count Regal Inkwell

@pixelfed @dansup Will it work from any Masto instance, or only the big famous ones?

Aw well, costs me nothing to sign up separately ksjdskjk

dansup

@vinesnfluff @pixelfed it will work with any Masto instance, as long as the Pixelfed admin hasn't disabled it

Braw ☕🏳️‍🌈

@pixelfed neat, though as a minor nit, when you get to instance list, using many primary buttons is confusing and generally not a great practice in UI design. I think it would be nice to settle on outline buttons, like ‘Back’ on the following screens.

@dansup

Cybarbie

@pixelfed @dansup sorry why does it do it twice? Is this just some weird way of getting sign ups? Surely it is easier and better to create the account separately.

BeAware :fediverse:

@nf3xn why would it be easier? 2 sign ups for a federated platform instead of 1? Redundant at best.

Cybarbie

@BeAware this is creating an account but also linking them.

How are there two signups? You already have a mastodon account.

The flow shown here is if I am not mistaken:

1. authorize access to your mastodon account.
2. create a new account, presumably authorized by 1. and I note, still requires yet another account - email.

or

1. create a new account
2. decide whether you want to link it to your other account or not.

@BeAware this is creating an account but also linking them.

How are there two signups? You already have a mastodon account.

The flow shown here is if I am not mistaken:

1. authorize access to your mastodon account.
2. create a new account, presumably authorized by 1. and I note, still requires yet another account - email.

BeAware :fediverse:

@nf3xn it's federated. Linking the accounts somehow....

Cybarbie

@BeAware a less toxic flow might be

1. offer to create an account with your mastodon user filled in and then
2. finally do you want to give *only* this new account access to your mastodon account.

and why does it need yet another account - email?

david

@pixelfed @dansup is it necessary to have separate identity/streams for the pixelfed and mastodon content? Or could I use pixelfed to post pics to my mastodon / follow pixelfed and mastodon accounts from my mastodon but use pixelfed to view a photostream from both those accounts. Apologies for naive question, I'm new to the fediverse

Nik

@ndivad @pixelfed @dansup same questions here. Brand New to all this. Introduced to fediverse through Lemmy and decided to jump into Mastodon, pixelfed and matrix at the same time. Also threads is supposedly going to be federated and integrated to Mastodon eventually so I wonder if that will be similar since I literally keep the same username across all my social presence.

Pelle Wessman

@pixelfed @dansup What does it use as an identifier for the external user? Can I swap from one instance to another as long as I maintain my Mastodon handle (eg always having pelle@voxpelli.com or such?)

Vancha :fedora:

@pixelfed @dansup That's amazing :o Yeah i can see that really lowering the barrier of entry a lot!

Brayd

@pixelfed@mastodon.social will this also work with Misskey/Calckey/Foundkey accounts? Or just with services using MastoAPI?

CtBk

@pixelfed @onepict @dansup That’s really cool.
One question though: what will happen if I migrate to another mastodon instance? Will my pixelfed account be migrated too?

David Fleetwood - RG Admin

@pixelfed @dansup Is there any chance of a stripped down ActivityPub account server that other AP services could leverage? I could see a proliferation of identity instances that permit users to login to other services while maintaining a centralized account, Oauth style.

stux⚡

@pixelfed @dansup woahh that pretty super sweet awesome! 😻 :ed_grin:

Zac

@pixelfed @dansup

I’d really like to see single signon for #ActivityPub servers. I could see it working in one of two ways:

1. (easier for users) Each server software allow signon and posting (etc.) from accounts to Fediverse instances that aren’t the same as the home instance. For example, using a kbin account to post on Mastodon. Each server software would need to know how to interact with the other kinds.

Zac

@pixelfed @dansup

2. (easier for software devs) Let’s say I setup these #ActivityPub servers as subdomains on the same domain:
• toot.example.com (Mastodon)
• doot.example.com (kbin or Lenmy)
• pixs.example.com (Pixelfed)
• vids.example.com (PeerTube)
You’d signup on the example.com landing page, and it would sync credentials to the subdomains. It would work like using your Google account to login on different (sub)domains to Docs, Gmail, and YouTube.

Zac

@pixelfed @dansup

Option 2 might be as simple (ha!) as someone writing a credential-syncing server for the landing page where you tell it the subdomains, so it knows where to push those. Not sure the Mastodon, Pixelfed, etc. servers would need to be modified.

Zac

@pixelfed @dansup

Option 1 could (on the desktop web app) appear as different tabs for Mastodon, kbin, Pixelfed, etc., all using the same singon to a single instance (doesn't matter which kind).

Dym Sohin

@pixelfed @dansup
does it mean masto-account is continuously synced to display photos from it on pixelfed,

or just a simple copy of the bio and such, and it's entirely new account?

Yvon Hawke ☑️
It's too bad I'll be ending my direct mastodon.social use in favoe of fe.disroot.org. But, good work! 👍

@pixelfed @dansup
Dan :coolified:

@pixelfed i tried downloading the pixelfed TestFlight app linked on the website but it just says the url is not valid and expired

Chris (He/Him)

@pixelfed @dansup Damn that's awesome. I'd use the service if it was that easy. Not a big poster of images but every once in a while it'd be cool.

blhue

@pixelfed @dansup I’m signing up for @pixelfed the moment this goes live!

KuJoe 💞

@pixelfed @dansup Would PixelFed admins have the ability to limit which Mastodon servers can be used? I'd like to setup a PixelFed instance specifically for my Mastodon community but not open it up publicly to the world if possible. Thanks!

KuJoe 💞

@theexplorographer It's currently broken at the moment sadly, I might have to do a clean install but I'm waiting to see about this update before I do anything.

Rich

@pixelfed nice! maybe lemmy will do it next!

ahimsa

@pixelfed This looks good! I was planning to sign up and this will make it easier 😁

Nacho

@pixelfed @dansup is it possible to do some universal thing where you can sign in with any instance using activitypub?

ilyess

@pixelfed @dansup Very cool!

if I may provide a piece of feedback, no one should be using a “memorable” password unless they’re unlocking their password manager’s vault. I suggest you update the password field info wording and drop the word “memorable”.

DELETED

@pixelfed @dansup
This is a great idea, and it looks great.

Akshit Gaur

@pixelfed @dansup Thank you so fucking much! I had recently created an account on both kbin and mastodon, so didn't want to create a new account. Thanks again and good luck for future!

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