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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 minutes ago

Hell yeah! 2025 is the year of the ~~linux~~ Fediverse ~~desktop~~!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 hours ago

Looks really cool, just discovered something liket his existed.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 hours ago

I was curious what the other apps were, found the list: https://fedidb.org/software

[–] [email protected] 58 points 8 hours ago

Kick ass! I'm all for more Fediverse stuff getting popular, and if this has any competition, just means more features will be added across all of them.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Is this the fediverse's answer to Instagram?

[–] [email protected] 36 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (3 children)

Yes.

-Instagram has pixelfed. -Reddit has lemmy -X has Mastodon/Misskey/Pleroma (&forks..) -Tiktok has loops (app still super rough around the edges and sadly on limited to one instance rather than having its own software from what i understand) -Youtube has peertube (so far the least used i think)

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

I can't wait for peertube to take off. I think of all of the social medias, youtube has the most enduring monopoly, because hosting is such a huge barrier it's got even more of a natural monopoly than regular social media.

I think once peertube can start ascending that might be the ballgame for decentralised social media in general.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 27 minutes ago

Exactly!! YouTube is by far the best "social" platform (or least shit) and sadly the strongest monopoly. Cus what the fuck is a newly made competitor gonna do? Rip all YouTube videos and host them? People on IG and X etc don't really go around looking at old posts, those places are more for looking at what's new and such. On YouTube however its entirely game that u find a dope edutainment video from years ago that you happen to vibe with.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

I dont understand how to join or post on peertube, its the most confusing, do you host your own, is there a feed of all the servers?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 25 minutes ago

You just pick an instance and join it, sadly i don't think it has enough federation yet so its entirely possible u just chose a bad instance and have amazing creators sitting on other instances yours isn't federated with

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

My feed on Pixelfed is way better the second week, now that I've followed a couple dozen folks and put some posts out there.

And pro tip: Post and tag a cute picture of your pet and people will see your account.

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

They need some starter packs like BlueSky because all I’m seeing are some art photography highly likely ai generated - and I have no idea where to find content that has any value. On searching the hashtags I’m getting mastodon posts containing links that can’t be clicked.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 8 hours ago (3 children)

Does anyone have recommendations who to follow on pixelfed?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago

I’m uploading shit daily. At least I’ll keep your feed busy.

Me.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Yesterday I revived my old Pixelfed account, and I have set myself a challenge, upload one photo every day for a month.

I have plenty of photos from the last decade to pick from

I don't know if this will mean that my account will be active in the long run, but I'll give it an honest try.

I posted this earlier in the thread:

https://pxlmo.com/p/stoy/787786012092436062

@[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 hours ago

Yeah dude me obviously. @[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 269 points 13 hours ago

When a fediverse app wins, the whole fediverse wins. A rising tide lifts all ships or however it goes.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 12 hours ago (4 children)

fuck it, I tried mastodon, I'll give pixelfed a try too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 20 seconds ago

Just tried to sign up for over thirty minutes, this'll always be the biggest barrier. I have an account but can't seem to login.

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

I’ve liked pixelfed. I don’t use it much though because my friends aren’t on it so I don’t see much of a point.

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