Gregory's Server@pixelfed if you sign in with mastodon what is your username? You say "read-only" scope… so when I post photos after signing in with mastodon I am posting photos to a different fediverse account and not my mastodon account?
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 @Deuchnord @pixelfed I'm not really sure I understand what the benefits are of this. Thanks tho :) @scrwd If you end up only having to use one set of login details for the entirety of the fediverse then it's a potential reduction in confusion as new users try out different services. That's my understanding of the benefits of OAuth in this context anyway. @swamptin @Deuchnord @pixelfed this is definitely a good thing - I often use "sign in with…" services to save time and having to think of passwords. I think my initial disappointment was that this wasn't a truly universal fediverse account for both Mastodon and Pixelfed. My dreamy ideal is one protocol and one account and depending on the types of content I post different apps surface different things from my single "stream". Not even sure if the ActivityPub protocol supports this. @scrwd Yeah, that would be a great solution if it is supported. But hey, I'll take a single app to access each of these accounts at least which it seems like fedilab does fairly well. |
@scrwd I think it's just OAuth. When you authorize Pixelfed to use your Mastodon-Account, pixelfed also knows that you're the owner of that account. Basically the same as Login with Twitter and Login with Facebook works.
@pixelfed I think the access rights can still be reduced. It is not directly obvious from the developer section of Mastodon, but you can still request fewer rights than read-only access with the right Parameters for the auth page, when you don't need them for more than login.