this post was submitted on 22 Jan 2021
11 points (100.0% liked)

Fediverse

18153 readers
6 users here now

A community dedicated to fediverse news and discussion.

Fediverse is a portmanteau of "federation" and "universe".

Getting started on Fediverse;

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
[email protected]
[email protected]
11
Fediverse project and subdomains (lemmy.ml)
submitted 4 years ago* (last edited 4 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
6 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

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

top 6 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 years ago (1 children)

You could setup external authentification such as LDAP which handles accounts for all services in a single place. But I dont know how hard it is to setup, and if all the projects you mention support it (Lemmy doesnt have it yet).

Relevant section in the Peertube docs

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 years ago

thanks. I had hoped there was a "plug and play" solution. I think I'll keep it separate

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 years ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 years ago

thanks, good points

[–] kinetix 1 points 4 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 points 4 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.