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    good to know because honestly after Meta forcing a clone of my Insta account onto Threads (which I’ll never use), really considering finally cutting ties with all mainstream social media and deleting my Insta in favor of Pixelfed. and just going total fediverse.

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        Streaming is more difficult since you have to create a viewership from basically nothing, while sites like Twitch, Kick, and Youtube have a massive userbase for streaming content. You can join a peertube instance but there seems to be little content and few users. Owncast is ok, basically more like hosting your own Twitch channel, but again you would need to byo userbase. You can use mastodon/kbin/lemmy to build up a following. Not sure if anyone has made a stable income from these services though.

        Couple resources for people to look-up:

        https://directory.owncast.online/
        https://instances.joinpeertube.org/instances

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    I’ve heard the name Pixelfed before, but I don’t know what it is, or why the ability to sign in with Mastodon is important.

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      Pixelfed is a federated photo sharing platform similar to instagram, signing in with Mastodon lets you carry over who you’re following on Mastodon.
      So I wouldn’t say it’s too important, but I thought it belonged here.

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          I think it’s also worth mentioning here that, since both pixelfed and mastodon belong to the fediverse, you can follow pixelfed users from mastodon and vice versa and see each others posts. :)
          That’s why the whole carrying over the people you follow stuff is a thing.

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            Yeah. Even though I’ll probably never use Pixelfed (I don’t use Instagram, either, or anything like it) I still acknowledge that’s a pretty cool feature.

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              You can use Pixelfed in the same way you use Imgur (assuming you use Imgur) to post memes or gifs and link them onto Lemmy/Kbin.

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              And this is where federation and interoperability becomes nice imo, because one doesn’t have to use pixelfed and can still get content from Pixelfed in their Mastodon feed, if they want to.

              Say someone would like to see the content of just a few Pixelfed users, but doesn’t want to create an own Pixelfed account just for that, one can just to follow those specific Pixelfed users with their Mastodon account to see the Pixelfed posts in their Mastodon home timeline.

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      It’s like being able to use your Twitter account to log into Instagram. But the Fediverse version.

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      some people like a image focused experience. That’s why Instagram and Twitter both exist despite having basically the same feature set.

      Even more importantly, open standards need multiple implementations to thrive. Kbin and lemmy offer nearly the same feature set too, but having more than one implementation makes the fediverse more healthy

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    Has anyone been able to successfully follow a pixelfed account from their mastodon account?

    I’ve manually searched for a few pixelfed accounts and followed them in mastodon clients but I don’t seem to get any content in my timeline

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    I sort of just assumed you could view PixelFed content with a Mastodon account anyway? Would this effectively create a second identical account?

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      You can view Pixelfed from Mastodon, but the interface of Mastodon is more focused on text microblogging than on image sharing. By federating the logins they are kind-of making an SSO of sorts, so now you can use the full pixelfed interface but your suscriptions and history stay on your Mastodon instance and just federate over to the pixelfed instance you are login into.

      That’s how people new to the fediverse were expeting it to work (myself included when I joined last year), so it’s nice to see it starting to shift that way.

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        Seems like maybe I’ve accidentally done it right by having a separate log in to both my Mastodon insurance and my Pixelfed instance. I always wonder if Federation means I should have one log in across all the Fediverse, but seems like maybe not.

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          The original idea was that users would only need one acct to interact with all parts of the fediverse, but the mastodon team decided they didn’t want that. They’ve said they want mastodon to be solely focused on microblogging and don’t want to optimize for other fediverse media/platforms

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      Probably bad. It centralizes the logins on mastodon and give them power over all the other tools that depend on them. If a gafam purchases a big mastodon instance then he also purchases a lot of accounts too.