This is very good from an admin or moderators perspective.
It makes it harder for new people to get into the fediverse, though. I’d love a version of this that helps new users find the right community.
It would be interesting if something like this federated out to other communities. I’d provide info about me as I feel comfortable, and what I want out of an instance of that federated service. Any community that signed up for it would get a notice of my interest and they could ask for more info or accept or deny me. Instead of the one response I could have many options at the end of it.
It would help me find smaller more closed instances without having to know about them, but still leave the control over whether they want to get to know me in their admin’s hands.
Lemmy’s system gives no feedback to applicants at all and is a single input field that offers no guided onboarding what so ever. It’s not even a proof of concept compared to what the blog post describes for Pixelfed.
Yes, however without experience with Lemmy’s implementation, it wasn’t clear what the differences were. From what I’ve read of Lemmy’s basic implementation, i.e. submit a reason with your registration/application, this didn’t sound that far from it.
As I read it, Pixelfed’s request for more information form is a good addition (better than the awkward roundabout way you’d have to handle it otherwise, as I think I recall seeing come up with Lemmy), albeit as it’s optional we’ll have to see how well it’s used in practice.
Definitely sounds like that. I just cross-posted this from the other fediverse community since I saw it wasn’t posted here. I also thought it was about Piefed, if I’m being completely honest 😅
This is something a lot of forums and more private/restricted communities had years ago. It creates a barrier, and if some specific community wants to activate that - sure. But for most instances and communities it’s not relevant.
It would be interesting if when creating account on a website, along with “Signup with Facebook” and “Signup with Google” there was a “Signup with Mastodon”. Not sure if that would be good or bad.
Off topic, but since this is an post about pixelfed and I can barely find anything about this issue elsewhere: is there any way to get hashtags you’re following to actually show up in your feed? All I’m getting is a handful of accounts I’m following, and since they don’t have much content, it’s a pretty limited experience.
It was nice. There was no way to never show those NSFW account in the public feed. There wasn’t even a button to block those accounts. I even checked my settings on the site and found nothing
@donut4ever@igalmarino Last I heard, @dansup and the @pixelfed crew were working to get the Pixelfed app into the Android and iOS app stores. There's currently a version of the app that you can sideload if you so desire...
I just installed their official app. It’s in beta, but it is so lovely. Reminds me of Instagram when it was first launched. I’m sticking with the official app. Learned my lesson from lemmy. Too many apps is no good. Lol
Do you happen to know if Mastodon can take Instagram exported json? All I want is a duplicate of my existing stuff so I can move it to a safer self hosting solution in bulk...
I wish this was more of a Single Sign-On approach instead of making it easier to just create a Pixelfed-account from a Mastodon account. It’s dope that it’s even attempting to find Mastodon accounts I follow who are also on Pixelfed in order to just easily follow them.
It’s actually just all your Mastodon follows, not people on Pixelfed. Due to the federation, pixelfed and Mastodon accounts can interact how you’d expect.
I wish nomadic identities were a thing. It’s a concept I found out about recently, where you could have one Fediverse account for all services, and just login to whatever you want with that preexisting account. Sort of what you describe as a Single Sign-On approach.
What I think is cool about this way of doing things, is that you could host an ActivityPub server, and login to any instance, even if it’s not your own. For example, I could login to lemmy.world or mstdn.social with my sopuli.xyz account. Or at least that’s what I understood.
It would probably get me to use the rest of the fediverse, tbh. Right now I only use Lemmy.
Yep! Many people discover this short coming on their own. Which means it’s basically a universal and objective failure of the fediverse at the moment.
Something to be concerned about is that I don’t think there are any structural incentives for developers to solve a problem like this. Instead, the incentive structure is geared toward people making their own platform as a silo or making an app for particular platform that has a good amount of users on it. The federating protocol is there, sure. But the financial livelihood of platform developers is dependent on donations from users of their platforms. How many are or even want to be “fediverse developers”?
I think there’s a pathological state that’s been settled into in this regard and I don’t see much talk or action against it.
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