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• george@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  To be clear, this creates a separate Pixelfed account, it just uses your Mastodon info for quick profile setup and authentication.

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  • salient_one@lemmy.villa-straylight.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Oh, I was going to ask why does it need access to everything and not just email, and that’s why.

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  • cptapathetic@rustyshackleford.cfd ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Still a super neat feature.

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  • richt@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Exactly what I was going to ask :-)

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• ren@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  not to be spicy, but… in all honesty, what’s the difference between posting on Pixelfed or on Mastodon. Post image + caption. Same on both, except on Mastodon I can choose not to post an image. I know Pixelfed is image-first, but if your friends and followers are on Mastodon and see/like/reblog my photos there. why would one need/want a Pixelfed account to manage too?

  Know what I mean? I’m just struggling to justify yet-another-social media account, especially as I wind down my time on IG.

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  • ttmrichter@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Mastodon has limits for number of pictures. Pixelfed has higher limits out of the box. Pixelfed has image filters available. Mastodon doesn’t seem to. Pixelfed’s UX is oriented toward picture management. Mastodon’s is oriented toward the textual experience.

    They’re different products that happen to share a protocol.

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  • salient_one@lemmy.villa-straylight.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Perhaps the restriction to always have an image is the main point. Threads also seem like just Instagram without the photos.

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    • ren@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      ironically, with the push for Threads, after the pressure to post Reels in the IG feed, people have been filling Threads with images again lol. It really feels like Threads will be the new IG feed at some point.

      Yeah, I get the idea is to force an image, but I guess I’ve been struggling lately with why bother with that limitation? Not sure if I’m describing it well.

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  • joshuaacasey@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Basically. Mastodon is a Twitter alternative. Pixelfed is an instagram alternative.

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    • ren@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      no, I understand all of that… i’m just wondering what the point of having an instagram-like experience in 2023 when you can post photos and be a photo account on Mastodon. It does the same job, especially when it’s all interconnected via the Fediverse.

      In the end, it’s all the same. Twitter, Threads, Mastodon, Instagram, Pixelfed, heck even Facebook: Post content, like/share/comment.

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  • notavote@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    And all of that is just an email, but different interface and a bit different rules will bring different people.

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  • priapus@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s just a different front end, which is true for the entire fediverse. If you don’t care for an Instagram like experience, just follow from mastodon.

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  • breakfastmtn@geddit.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s mostly just media first but there are a few features that don’t federate. Portfolios and stories are exclusive to pixelfed. And even if you just want to scroll a bunch of photos there just isn’t a better way. They have the best Fediverse app I’ve ever used and the experience is great because it was designed specifically for that purpose.

    Not that there’s anything wrong with not seeing the appeal. The best thing about the Fediverse is that you can just be wherever you want. So you can post on Mastodon and follow whoever you want on Pixelfed too without having to make another account.

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• pluja@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It’s “sign up” not “sign in”. It creates a separate account cloning all your Mastodon data (follows, profile pic, username…)

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  • heyfrancis@mastodon.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    it says sign-in with mastodon

    https://pixelfed.social/login

    @pluja

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    • Random_user@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I just went through it. He’s correct. It still makes you create a separate account, it just copies some information from your mastodon account.

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• burgersc12@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The post is still broken for Lemmy fyi

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  • TheSaneWriter@lemmy.thesanewriter.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It looks alright to me. For reference, my instance is lemmy.thesanewriter.com and my app is Thunder.

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    • burgersc12@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      They just fixed it about a minute after my comment :)

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• joshuaacasey@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Now, if only the import from instagram would work🙄

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• aloeha@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I already signed up for both Pixelfed and Mastodon, is there a way to connect the two accounts? I guess I’m OK with abandoning my old Pixelfed account because I think I only have one or two posts on it.

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  • heyfrancis@mastodon.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    i'm not yet sure if merging 2 accounts is possible, probably not

    @aloeha

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    • aloeha@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Oh well, thanks. If I use Mastodon to login with Pixelfed, do things I post on Mastodon get posted on Pixelfed too?

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