A couple of days ago i registered my moniker Sepix on Pixelfed.de with its own Mailadress. A short while after i noticed i could also log in through Mastodon which i prefer because i mostly post pictures through Mastodon anyways.

I have two accounts now, one by logging in directly into Pixelfed as @sepix and another through the Mastodon login as @sepix@chaos.social - BUT when i login through Mastodon now i end up in my @sepix profile and not in my @sepix@chaos.social profile.

I cleaned my cookies and tried logging into the site private mode but i always end up at the Pixelfed account no matter what. Searching for the accounts shows both of them, most of the content i posted is visible on the federated account timeline, the other timeline being empty.

What is going on? Shouldn’t i be ablo to login the site with both?

  • hansenerd@shoddy.site
    2·
    20 hours ago

    @Sepix
    hiya, pixelfed.de admin here.

    your chaos.social profile (this one) is a profile, not an account. this is the view :pixelfed:.de has of your chaos.social account.

    your actual pixelfed.de account has login through mastodon, which just means that instead of giving your password your mastodon account tells pixelfed.de that it’s okay to log in.

    so you do have one account with us, but two profiles. profiles get created automatically whenever the instance gets knowledge of a fedi account.

    hope this makes sense :)

    • Sepix@feddit.orgOPEnglish
      1·
      11 hours ago

      @hansenerd Aha aha, thank you for clearing that up! The difference between accounts and profiles wasn’t clear to me, is this visible somehow? How can i differentiate between the two?

      And, a profile only mirrors the Mastodon content i guess, so when i delete a picture from Mastodon it will also be removed from the corresponding Pixelfed profile? Is this described somewhere?

      Thanks again for your help!

      • hansenerd@shoddy.site
        1·
        5 hours ago

        @Sepix when you look at a profile, and it just says “@username”, that’s an account pixelfed.de. when it says “@username@some.host” thats a profile of a remote user (on some.host).

        yes, delete actions get federated, meaning pixelfed.de gets notified when you delete stuff on chaos.social. they don’t always get transmitted in time, so it can take a while for a post to be deleted everywhere, or if the message gets lost, your post stays on remote instances.