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.
Fedi.Tips
in reply to Rashunda Tramble • • •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.
Scooter
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •Mastodon
Mastodon hosted on mastodon.socialFedi.Tips
in reply to Scooter • • •@scooter
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.
Scooter
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •@FediTips 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.
Loops.video
loops.videoFedi.Tips
in reply to Scooter • • •Ahh okay! Fair enough! Sorry for my misunderstanding of what you were saying.
Max - Poliverso 🇪🇺🇮🇹
in reply to Rashunda Tramble • •@Rashunda Tramble
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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Rashunda Tramble
in reply to Max - Poliverso 🇪🇺🇮🇹 • • •