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Pixelfed #11 in Android app store (feddit.org)

submitted 22 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I almost never look at the app store but I popped in today in the wake of the TikTok ban and was shocked to see this.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Can somebody help an old out here. I want to look at pictures of art people make and stuff like that. I really don't care about some randos selfies. Right now, there are image heavy lemmy groups that fit that bill. Should I go check out Pixelfed for more content? Or is it a fediverse Instagram thing only?

Lemmy really works for me in the sense of following topics instead of people.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Pixelfed.art is all artists posting their work!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 minutes ago

Wow, I just followed the link and browsed a little bit. There's some really amazing stuff there!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 hours ago

I only heard of Pixelfed because of a post somewhere that was saying Facebook was blocking links to the website. I made an account and started using it for fun to spite Facebook. Now this could have simply been a bait post to drive engagement to Pixelfed **or ** Facebook is dumb and did some kind of Streisand effect.

It doesn't matter either way

[–] brb 15 points 6 hours ago

9th in Finland

torille

[–] [email protected] 20 points 11 hours ago (4 children)

Is there any progress towards marrying these different fediverse services together so I could use my Lemmy account on any of them? Is this a goal at all?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

Do we actually want that? I like that each service is its own.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago

You can sign in to Pixelfed with a Mastodon account…presumably this is how you can share your Pixelfed posts to your Mastodon account. Although the poster that posted about this said it wasn’t a good option and I can’t remember why. You can also see Mastodon posts on Lemmy….or maybe vice versa.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Ahhh I'm sure I've read something about it but I'm not the best person to ask.

I know it's possible because you can sign into Pixelfed with your Mastodon account right now.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 hours ago

You can follow Lemmy threads and users on Mastodon right now, but it's super clunky just from the fact both platforms are so different from each other. Here's this thread, as seen from my Mastodon account on the Tusky app.

[–] hmmm 3 points 11 hours ago

Lemmy currently don't have API for that.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 13 hours ago

Fuck it, I'm joining now.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

If they had gotten loops into the stores they could have gained so many users this past week im sure

[–] [email protected] 11 points 13 hours ago

Imagine being the one guy who runs both of those and having them both blow up at once though 🪦rip

[–] [email protected] 12 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Can we advertise instances? lol I started one for makers making things. (it's brand new so its empty)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 13 hours ago

Fine with me 🤷

[–] [email protected] 5 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

How does privacy work with it? In my mind I’d think it’d be terrible because everything is federated. Not something I care about with lemmy, but pictures are a different story.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Depends on what you mean.

If you set your profile to private, it's most likely private. It is open source so you can audit the code, if you're knowledgeable enough. Then you have to trust whoever hosts your instance that they haven't modified the code.

The difference between other mainstream social sites is that it's not secretly mining all your personal data. It only shares exactly what you give it. At least it's probably not, because there's not a significant amount of it.

But everything you make public is not just available publicly but also archived on thousands of servers. And you can electronically request it be deleted but there's no guarantee they'll honor that request.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Good point. My worry is just a federated instance scooping up all of the feed regardless of privacy, but I bet this is a question I can answer by ceasing my laziness and reading their site.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

Yeah again, assuming everything is kosher on your instance, they can only scoop up what your instance, and you, make available.

Anything you make publicly available should be considered to be immortalized. Forever.

But with the advent of a hundred different websites like archive.org and now all these AI sites, you should assume that about the whole internet, I suppose.

I wish there was a truly private social media but it looks like Signal stories is about as close as we get.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

I've never used the official app for PixelFed, I'm just on Fedilab for both it and Mastodon... is the PixelFed app worth a look?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 hours ago

It's pretty terrible tbh, I keep having to go back to the browser.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 hours ago (3 children)

Weird, I don't see it. Instead, I see a bunch of proprietary apps. 1000046546

[–] [email protected] 2 points 54 minutes ago

image of an iPhone so tall that it's bigger than skyscrapers

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

You have a very long phone

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

Samsung phones have this cool feature where you take screenshot and then you can extend this screenshot by tapping a button.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

It's under the social feed.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

Or maybe it can be because I have a Slovak account.

EDIT: It's 43rd in Slovakia.

1000046553

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

Looks cool! But I'm confused about the hashtags. I followed a bunch but my home feed hasn't changed at all. What's the point of following hashtags?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

They should populate your home feed. Mine do. Could be because the site's been a bit wobbly today...?

Edit: actually, it might only work for new posts with those tags!

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[–] catsarebadpeople 7 points 13 hours ago (6 children)

I've been loving it. One thing that has to be fixed immediately. You can't click on links inside the post descriptions. I want to follow the link that goes to a news article or website for the sale of a product but I can't click the link or even copy text on mobile.

Devastating

[–] [email protected] 6 points 13 hours ago

Another shitty "feature" brought over from Instagram, I suppose.

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[–] [email protected] 80 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

https://pixelfed.fediverse.observer/dailystats

Be interesting to see what it looks like a month from now -- the size of plateau and drop-off.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

Me working with small businesses to switch off of Instagram

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

My girlfriend runs a kid-friendly café for younger moms and sadly it would probably tank her business moving over to pixelfed... It's quite a big risk for those kind of small businesses..

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 hours ago

You can post the same stuff on as many social media platforms as you want.

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[–] [email protected] 80 points 22 hours ago

Hot damn, it moved up 3 spots from just the other day!

GO PIXELFED GO!

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