Hi all, Still trying to get my head around the way different projects work together in the fediverse. I’m interested in setting a regional instance for peertube, pixelfed and mastodon. If my domain is example.com, I’m thinking of having peertube.example.com, pixelfed.example.com and mastodon.example.com

However, does that mean that a user will need to register separately for all 3? Or is there a way to have 1 account and use the same access for peertube, pixelfed and mastodon that are on the same domain (but different subdomains)

Thanks

  • poVoq
    4•3 years ago

    Think about this carefully. Sure technically that is possible, but it is a lot of maintenance effort and will confuse users a lot, as accounts/websites are still functionally separate, yet also interact.

    I personally think it is better to consider your target audience needs and focus on one type of service only.

    • Kinetix
      1•3 years ago

      Why would it confuse users unless you started linking things between services in unexpected ways?

      I run a pile of different sites as subdomains of isurf.ca - hasn’t been an issue yet.

  • Kinetix
    1•3 years ago

    That’s a good question and something I wish to delve in to a little further myself. I was just going over all the plugins available in peertube yesterday, and it has authentication plugins for LDAP, OAuth, and others. I can’t speak for Pixelfed’s abilities, but perhaps it would be possible to authenticate on the other services from whichever you wanted to be the ‘master’ service.

    I haven’t tried, yet, but I think at some point I’m going to tinker with it.

    For example, I have a pleroma instance at yo.isurf.ca and if I were to open up my peertube instance at video.isurf.ca to the public, it would be fantastic to have it authenticate against pleroma.

    Maybe LDAP’s the way to go, though… I really look forward to hearing more on this topic.