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submitted 2 days ago by [email protected] to c/selfhosted

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Hello I am looking to self host my own pixelfed account just because I like self hosting and like sharing pics.

I saw there is a sign in with mastodon option on the pixelfed site and was curious if I host a mastodon instance instead, could I then use pixelfed with the same account?

I have a lemmy, mastodon, and pixelfed account right now and from doing a few experiments it seems mastodon has the best federation with both pixelfed and lemmy as far as commenting back and forth so it would be pretty neat to use a mastodon instance if that is possible

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

No, if you sign in with Mastodon, that's just using your Mastodon credentials to create a Pixelfed account.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

so would that mean my data would be on pixelfed.social?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

Your data will be on whatever server you select. It's not "sign up with Mastodon", it's "sign in with Mastodon".

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You can use pixelfed with the same account, but to do this you will have to go onto your mastodon instance and follow a pixelfed accounts from there and they will appear in your Mastodon timeline. Here is a little explanation of the "log in with Mastodon" option.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Ah that explains a lot, i had added a mastodon account to pixeldroid app so I thought it was the same thing as login with mastodon but after trying it some more todag I see the limitations of using a mastodon account as a pixelfed, more like just a bunch of mastodon posts showing up that don't load right