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?
@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 one thing to add - you can't use pixelfed.de through a profile. profiles are view-only.