This is how I host any images that I post to Lemmy, because I assume Pixelfed is more equipped to host images than Lemmy is. As a bonus, if you use a direct link to the image as the link in your Lemmy post, the image shows up just as if you’d uploaded it directly to the post. No clickthrough needed
This doesn’t answer your exact question and I haven’t done this with webfingers, but I’ve done this with a reverse proxy like nginx (or traefik) and no special DNS tricks. Your example.com will point to 1.2.3.4 IP and then the subdomain routing is handled by the reverse proxy. I’ve had upwards of 8 different domains and subdomains all running on a single box taking advantage of docker containers.
Yes, the subdomains are routed via a reverse proxy. My primary issue is that pixelfed and mastodon ask for the same resource. My identity, email@domain.tld is requested by ActivityPub services and if they all ask for the same resource, they get my Mastodon account. I’m wondering if people have a fix for this that allows Pixelfed services to get my pixelfed account, mastodon my mastodon account, Funkwhale, etc. Problem is, I dont think there is short of having some logic that looks at the incoming user agent and then routes it to the proper resource.
Hmm. Ok, but mastodon and pixelfed are unrelated services at the authentication level. When you hit the home page of each it’ll ask you to authenticate. Even if you use the precise same info (e.g. name, email, password even), each one will be authenticating separately. Or am I missing something still?
Yes, that’s correct. Both mastodon and pixelfed support OAurh, though, so if you ran an oauth provider, you should theoretically be able to authenticate with a single set of credentials.
Here’s a link to a better description of what someone is trying to do with webfinger. It’s critical to federation, and services piggybacking on mastodons configuration sort of break that - eg a pixelfed instance querying for user@domain.tld (trying to follow the pixelfed user for that user) would end up returning the mastodon profile. And while that works, and the third party pixelfed instance will follow the mastodon user, the pixelfed user won’t get that follow. Federation will end up being broken on pixelfed, IIRC.
Sharkey and Firefish both offer this, tho they handle it a bit differently. Those two are "built in" and the idea is that the imported posts don't federate, they just get imported with you. You would lose favorites, boosts, and in most cases, reply history. Sharkey states they are able to import replies as well for Mastodon and Twitter, but I haven't seen it in action yet (just came out this week).
Firefish - Import from other firefish instances, mastodon. I don't know for sure, but I assume IceShrimp has this as well.
I tried Firefish, and it did work for my very small collection of posts from another instance.
Sharkey - Import from Misskey/Firefish, Mastodon/Pleroma/Akkoma, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook. Sharkey states that for the Mastodon flavors and Twitter, replies to your posts are also imported (?) Not sure how that works.
If you have some technical background, there's another option, Mastodon Content Mover tho it does "spam" your posts, so be sure to use this BEFORE you import or add followers. Just like the other options, replies, likes, boosts, etc. aren't included. It's written in Java.
Not sure it’s possible, there is an importer for Instagram since Pixelfed is most closely an alternative to that. Never used Pinterest but don’t you have different boards or collections you make yourself? I don’t think Pixelfed can do that.
Pixelfed has an option to tag posts as NSFW and you can in the options either blur or display posts marled NSFW.
There’s also the question of copyright (which is a problem with Pinterest as far as I’m aware), with Instagram I feel (no idea if that is corect) most of the content people post is actually theirs (photos, selfies etc). On Pinterest I feel like most of the stuff is just “imported” (= stolen) from the internet, is that assumption right? I’d be careful of moving huge chunks of copyrighted material publicly from one platform to another. Chances of something happening are obviously extremely, extremely low but morally I think it’s at least something to keep in mind.
I totally forgot about the copyright issue! Hm, you are right, I better be careful with it. Pinterest does not necessarily care about copyrights, as long as it the content keeps circling within the platform.
Yeah, true. I have noticed it’s more like Instagram than Pinterest itself. However unfortunately there’s no alternative for Pinterest yet besides Pixelfed.
Yeah, with Pinterest you can make boards and categorize everything - that’s what I truly love of it. But the amount of huge advertisements just messes with the overall experience. So I don’t mind giving that up and just put everything in one place.
As long as the experience is smooth and user-friendly.
As for the NSFW - I have it as marked NSFW (blurring it) but I want to fully hide it.
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