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.
Weird, I don't see it. Instead, I see a bunch of proprietary apps.
this post was submitted on 19 Jan 2025
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EXPLAIN Pixelfed to me like I'm 5?
Can I use it to post photos into Lemmy groups?
I'm currently using a generic, slightly sketch website.
Open source and decentralized Instagram alternative.
Loops.video is an open source and decentralized TikTok alternative.
just being pedantic here, not confrontational, but loops.video is implementing federation but hasn’t finished yet. i was a tad disappointed but have hopes for the future that they get it done and it doesn’t flounder
Ty
Well the very simple version is that it's an Instagram alternative (I assume 5 year olds know what Instagram is). Similar in almost every way, minus the ads.
Theoretically you can use it to share photos to Lemmy, but I have no idea how. There was discussion of Pixelfed groups at one point, not sure if they ever came to fruition.
(I assume 5 year olds know what Instagram is)
ELInot5 what Instagram is?
Seriously, I've never understood the point of it.
It's a place to post your photos cropped into squares. You can get gratification there because all your friends have to like your photos.
Seriously, I've never understood the point of it.
To sell Ads, like most commercial meida eg newspaper, TV etc etc. Flogging advertising makes money for metas stockholders and others.
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37th pos in italy. 1st is Rednote :-O
Wait what?!
Why is Italians... When it's Americans... I'm so confused!
Me too. I guess because a lot of Italians like to pretend to be americans.
Does it work better on iOS? Because for me the app is very slow and sometimes just never loads anything
I don't know. That's probably not an issue with the app but with your particular instance/server.
Dang, alright. I tried pixelfed.social and SDF. Guess I'll keep making accounts until I find one that works
.social works fine for me. I mean it's not lightning fast but it's not slow either.
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Yes. The Android app has some serious problems right now. Pixelix is probably the best Android app for now - though it has it's own rough edges. It's $2.99 in the Play store but free on F-Droid.
Using them together, however, does make for one complete (but inconvenient) app.
Edit: one of the worst Pixelix pain points was that notifications didn't actually link to the things it was notifying you about. This was just fixed in an update. The only thing you really lose out on is push notifications in the official app now.
Alright I'll check it out. Next I just need SDF's instance to work because I love SDF and want to use them but the validation email won't send
pixelfed.social's starting to slow down. I think the growth's hitting it hard.
I appreciate that they offer more than their first party server on sign-up (unlike Mastodon) but the first party one is still at the top with nearly 4x the number of users than the next highest.
It should be simple enough to allow instances to opt into being shown and then shuffle them periodically.
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BlueSky being ahead of X is a real testament to how Mastodon users are insufferable and hostile. I love and use Mastodon but Jesus Christ, make some jokes and relax. Al Gore didn’t take the lead in creating the Internet for people to be insufferable. If a game is on, people might talk about it. Don’t chime in about colonialism or whatever during the game. Relax. We’ll talk about that on a weekday.
"Here's my angry, unpopular, barely coherent diatribe apropos of nothing about this large and diverse group of people definitely being angry and hostile."
You seem like a very relaxed person
That's like saying all Lemmy users are hostile.
But the thing is that here in Europe, we are more relaxed than USians because we have government mandated vacation days. It's even better when I get sick at the same time because I can catch a free ambulance ride to the hospital near the beach since there is no "out of network" medical care (whatever that means) here. I can then take mass transit from the hospital to the beach and make university-educated friends with everyone because tuition here is free. Because I didn't die in a mass shooting when leaving the beach, I can order a reasonably-sized meal that doesn't cause instant cardiovascular disease and not leave a tip because our servers are paid a living wage. I can't imagine the horror of living in such an underdeveloped country as USA. I am so glad I am in the EU.
- Sent from my phone without concern of being doxxed or tracked thanks to EU privacy laws
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Hopefully they can get the app to run well. It's seemingly shit on android right now. Unsure if it's something on my end.
Most likely nothing to do with the app itself, just the server. As with any product that experiences sudden growth.
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I'm using the android app and I've found it decent. I think the UI/UX could use some quality of life improvements but it's a simple and straightforward app to use.
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For you maybe. I had to scroll to #79 to see it.
Gotta go by category, social media category specifically
With Play store Top Free across all categories, 79 is actually pretty good, even Amazon is "just" at 53
Did filter on Social category? I'm pretty sure the screenshot is for Social.
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