Question: I keep hearing that I can sign up to one #fediverse instance and use all apps on the fediverse.
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Question: I keep hearing that I can sign up to one #fediverse instance and use all apps on the fediverse. I signed up here on Mastodon. Then I made a new account on #loops when I signed up. Did I mess up? I didn't see a way to sign in on Loops using my Mastodon credentials.
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Question: I keep hearing that I can sign up to one #fediverse instance and use all apps on the fediverse. I signed up here on Mastodon. Then I made a new account on #loops when I signed up. Did I mess up? I didn't see a way to sign in on Loops using my Mastodon credentials.
@rashunda@mastodon.social No mess up on your end!
It’s down to the creator of the fediverse app to implement or not this sign-in with your existing account. What’s guaranteed is that you can interact with all compatible apps (I can respond to your post even if I’m not on Mastodon), but one account for all the different services is sadly not standard as of today
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@rashunda@mastodon.social No mess up on your end!
It’s down to the creator of the fediverse app to implement or not this sign-in with your existing account. What’s guaranteed is that you can interact with all compatible apps (I can respond to your post even if I’m not on Mastodon), but one account for all the different services is sadly not standard as of today
@NIGHTEN Thank you so much! I get it. But it would be so nice if one could use one account for all, but maybe that will happen in the future.
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Question: I keep hearing that I can sign up to one #fediverse instance and use all apps on the fediverse. I signed up here on Mastodon. Then I made a new account on #loops when I signed up. Did I mess up? I didn't see a way to sign in on Loops using my Mastodon credentials.
@rashunda
You can follow all kind of instances. If you want to publish something on loops, you must have an account there, too. So, you did evrything right. -
Question: I keep hearing that I can sign up to one #fediverse instance and use all apps on the fediverse. I signed up here on Mastodon. Then I made a new account on #loops when I signed up. Did I mess up? I didn't see a way to sign in on Loops using my Mastodon credentials.
@rashunda You didn't mess up! The point - as I understand it - is that each instance *can* offer the various applications on the Fediverse, but it is up to the owners and operators of the instance. I don't know whether mastodon.social has loops.video installed.
I'm planning on doing something similar with PeerTube in the near future, as I may wish to start offering content on that app.
A good resource for all things Fediverse is @FediTips . They operate a Website - https://fedi.tips - with lots of instruction on this sometimes-confusing medium. (Also, it would be nice if you then offered a small monetary contribution to FediTips if you find their content useful, as they are operated by a single human, as best I can tell, and they are offering their services out of altruism towards the community.) -
Question: I keep hearing that I can sign up to one #fediverse instance and use all apps on the fediverse. I signed up here on Mastodon. Then I made a new account on #loops when I signed up. Did I mess up? I didn't see a way to sign in on Loops using my Mastodon credentials.
First off, no you didn't mess up!
Your instance communicates with other instances. So, you and I are on different instances but we're able to have this conversation.
You can even communicate with people on different kinds of instance, so people on a Mastodon instance can interact with people on a Pixelfed instance.
But your account only works on one instance, you can't use it to sign in on other instances. If you want to use another instance's features, you need an account on it.
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Question: I keep hearing that I can sign up to one #fediverse instance and use all apps on the fediverse. I signed up here on Mastodon. Then I made a new account on #loops when I signed up. Did I mess up? I didn't see a way to sign in on Loops using my Mastodon credentials.
In the other world you have Facebook, YouTube and Instagram, you need three accounts, one for Facebook, one for YouTube and one for Instagram.
In the Fediverse it's the same, you need an account for the Fediverse equivalent of Facebook (Mastodon in your case), an account for the Fediverse equivalent of YouTube (PeerTube for instance) and an account for the Fediverse equivalent of Instagram (Pixelfed in your case).
What you get is that from Mastodon you can have friends on PeerTube and see their video appearing in your Mastodon timeline. It doesn't happen on Facebook: if a friend of yours post a video on YouTube you can't see that video from your Facebook account (unless a friend of yours on Facebook happens to see that video on YouTube and decides to share it on Facebook).
Another thing you get here is that you see ALL the posts of your friends appearing in your Mastodon timeline, without any algorithm deciding you can't see a post because it thinks that post doesn't deserve to appear in your timeline.
Another thing you get here is that you ONLY see your friends posts, you don't see posts of people you don't know just because the algorithm decides it's worth you read it.
Another thing you get is that you don't see ads.
There are some other advantages of this place but the most important, for me, are the ones I mentioned above.
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First off, no you didn't mess up!
Your instance communicates with other instances. So, you and I are on different instances but we're able to have this conversation.
You can even communicate with people on different kinds of instance, so people on a Mastodon instance can interact with people on a Pixelfed instance.
But your account only works on one instance, you can't use it to sign in on other instances. If you want to use another instance's features, you need an account on it.
@FediTips @rashunda Yeah, again, I don't know if mastodon.social offers loops.video. I'd suspect not. -
@FediTips @rashunda Yeah, again, I don't know if mastodon.social offers loops.video. I'd suspect not.
You can't "offer" another instance, each instance is totally separate.
Loops.video is a Loops instance running Loops software.
Mastodon.social is a Mastodon instance running Mastodon software.
Although servers talk to each other and you can communicate with people on other servers, if you want to use the features of another server you need to have an account on that server.
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You can't "offer" another instance, each instance is totally separate.
Loops.video is a Loops instance running Loops software.
Mastodon.social is a Mastodon instance running Mastodon software.
Although servers talk to each other and you can communicate with people on other servers, if you want to use the features of another server you need to have an account on that server.
@FediTips @rashunda Oh, okay! I was under the impression that the actual *service* was called "loops.video". Loops is the service, loops.video is the server. Got it.
Somewhere I saw a list of Fediverse services which listed "loops.video" as the service itself, so that's why I got confused. -
@FediTips @rashunda Oh, okay! I was under the impression that the actual *service* was called "loops.video". Loops is the service, loops.video is the server. Got it.
Somewhere I saw a list of Fediverse services which listed "loops.video" as the service itself, so that's why I got confused.
