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FediTips has moved!

You don't need separate accounts to interact with different kinds of Fediverse servers.

For example, if you have a Mastodon account you can follow PeerTube accounts such as @theatticdwellers or @alliterative and their videos will appear in your Mastodon timeline as if they were Mastodon posts.

If you reply to a PeerTube video within Mastodon, the reply will also appear as a comment below that video on PeerTube. (And comments made on PeerTube will appear as replies on Mastodon.)

FediTips has moved!Mar 12, 2023

p.s. There are many kinds of servers on the Fediverse alongside Mastodon, here's a quick guide to some of them: https://fedi.tips/what-other-kinds-of-servers-are-on-the-fediverse

You can follow all of these server types from your Mastodon account.

What other kinds of servers are on the Fediverse? | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse

An unofficial guide to using Mastodon and the Fediverse

Adrian Mar 12, 2023

@feditips Nice. It's probably time to add Wordpress?

Aaron Mar 12, 2023

@acka47 @feditips there are plugins for federation already available for WordPress.

Aaron Mar 13, 2023

@acka47 @feditips here is information on federating your WordPress blog.

https://fedi.tips/wordpress-turning-your-blog-into-a-fediverse-server/

WordPress: Turning your blog into a Fediverse server | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse

An unofficial guide to using Mastodon and the Fediverse

אלישע 🏳️‍⚧️🎗🍉Mar 12, 2023

@feditips How do you follow a server from your own account?

CDunn Mar 12, 2023

How do you learn about the content on other services, so as to know what to follow?

Hill403 Mar 12, 2023

@feditips I flagrantly copy/ pasted this on my Facebook page.

Dom DeLorenzo Mar 13, 2023

@feditips Super cool. Wondering why Pleroma isn't included on the list, though.

Ricós has moved Mar 12, 2023

@feditips
But if you want to upload vids to PeerTube, you have to create a new account to join an instance there, right?

John Regan Mar 12, 2023

@feditips one thing I was interested in checking out was photos over on PixelFed instances. But I'm not sure how to find creatives to follow, it seems like PixelFed doesn't have public search.

Are there any tools for searching and browsing profiles on instances like that? I'm certain there's interesting photographers worth checking out but it seems like I need to make a separate PixelFed account to find them.

Anne Deschaine Mar 12, 2023

@johnny @feditips Watching this, because I also made a PixelFed acct (which I never use because even hashtags did not help me locate much content) because I couldn't figure out how to follow PF here on Mastodon.

Radu Mar 12, 2023

@feditips @theatticdwellers @alliterative
Ok, but what happens when you try following Mastodon accounts from PeerTube or Pixelfed?

DJ Fragile Toolchains Mar 12, 2023

@feditips @theatticdwellers @alliterative right, but you can't post to pixelfed from mastodon, for example

FediTips has moved!Mar 12, 2023

You can post from Mastodon to Pixelfed.

Pixelfed accounts can follow Mastodon accounts, and they will see Mastodon posts in the same way people on Mastodon see Pixelfed posts.

(One caveat: by default Pixelfed hides posts that don't have images attached, but PF users can switch on text-only posts as well from their settings page.)

DJ Fragile Toolchains Mar 13, 2023

@feditips thank you. I think what my brain expects is to be able to log in to PIxelfed with my mastodon account (and see pixelfed type stuff only). Otherwise I have the over head of "managing" two accounts.

fahru Mar 12, 2023

@feditips thanks :O I never bothered to learn ins and outs of fediverse so these bite-sized infos are perfect for me.

Calamity Caitlin Mar 12, 2023

@feditips @theatticdwellers @alliterative !!! 🥰🥰🥰

Douglas Phillips Books Mar 12, 2023

@feditips clear as mud. Each time I've tried to access content on some other instance I'm asked to login. And it won't accept my credentials. I must still be doing something wrong but I've never heard of the sites you reference.

Gerald Haffner Mar 13, 2023

@dpscifi @feditips I agree, this is the main thing that I believe is unclear to new users - why do I need to copy/paste a link to my own server when browsing another server?

I've figured out how to live with it now, but I remember when I first joined, this was a big hurdle, and I think it's worth letting people browse and interact withother servers while staying logged into their own server, rather than having to copy/paste the link in order to interact.

Diabetic Heihachi Mar 12, 2023

@feditips @theatticdwellers @alliterative

As A #PeerTube admin I approve of this PSA.

@feditips although i still do because i don't want to miss out the UIs of the separate platform, it's basically a wasted work for the devs if you only see their platform from your account on another platform, and this os exceptionally true for platforms with complex and good UIs like pixelfed or misskey, you truly miss everything about them if you see profiles from these platforms from the one you are in right now

Kazii The Avali Mar 13, 2023

@feditips any puphub platform can interact with any puphub platform. you may have to make an acc to post on that platform specifically tho.

Punnamaraju Vinayaka Tejas Mar 13, 2023

@feditips I did not know that! Genuinely nice to know.

notes Mar 15, 2023

@feditips I want one account that does all the things.