I wanted an easier way to post across Mastodon, Pixelfed, Lemmy, and Bluesky, but couldn’t find a tool that did it all. So I built one: loftly.social
It lets you share posts everywhere in one go, saving time and keeping your networks in sync.
I’d love feedback from the community—what features would you like to see next, or any improvements you’d suggest?
What I allways felt we needed was a federated identity system. Then all posts on a platform could just be followed on any other platform.
Now, joe@one.site has to create a separate account on other.site, but joe@other.site is already taken, so he has to go with doe@other.site and resort to solutions like this one to post to several locations at once.
What I whould suggest is to just create some kind of federated identity provider so that Joe can just be joe@joe.site and post on one.site, other.site or whatever.site he wants and have his posts federate magicaly throughout the fediverse.
Of course, moderation would have to be based more on user accounts than on nodes, I gess…
Wasn’t there something already close to this? “OpenId”?..
I wouldn’t mind having my identity just be a hash (of username@domain and some salt, for example) and have all other fediverse servers use that to authenticate and authorize me but display the username, logo, bio, etc that I had registered on that domain.
Maybe let me overide some information for context per site or inherit from the original id provider.
Then I could be known as FatFingersJoe at the guitar players site where I’m learning scales and SenseiJoe at the karate forum for my dojo. :-D
,or maybe I’m just missunderstanding this fediverse thing alltoguether! :-/
ActivityPub is supposed to be a solution to this problem.
As far as I know, Mastodon and Pixelfed are already interoperable, and shouldn’t need a cross poster. Bluesky users can be reached through BridgyFed. Lemmy is only partially interoperable with Mastodon, but this is a result of developers’ choices and not a limitation of the protocol. I can post to all four services, for example.
Each of thise paltform has different character limits , we need seemless integrations
Mastodon enforces character limit for its own posts, but not for posts coming through federation. Most Fediverse platforms work in the same way, so differing character limits is not a problem.
I don’t know about Bluesky, it may truncate long posts because it uses a different protocol.
I thought mastodon truncate the extra characters of a too long pixelfed post
Cool idea, although I thought part of the draw of all these various fediversal services was that they could interact with each other natively via the Activity Pub protocol.
Add https so we can click the link https://loftly.social/
Looks cool.
I’m currently working on something similar, but for long form content. I want to make a blog, and have posts posted both to the fediverse and to nostr, but my solution is more of a self-hosted thing.
