Neat, is there a way to share from Immich to Pixelfed?
this post was submitted on 22 Jan 2025
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People share photos and videos all the time on mastodon. What is the difference with pixelfed?
Everything on Fedi is just different interfaces and perf from the user perspective.
People want to continue to use something close to Instagram, Facebook, Reddit, Twitter but not be locked to their enshitified companies who decide what they get to see.
Many that come over find out there's no algorithm and that they have to follow people to get any content, they find they miss the doom scroll and go straight back.
Every one of these federated apps needs a strong meme feed. Just an endless stream of shitposts and funny content. Doesn't need to be doomscrolling, just needs to be a constantly available source of low effort junk food content
Different vibes. I am really liking the pixelfed UI.
Pixelfed allows video?
Yes. No transcoding, but that's actually a feature as far as I'm concerned.
Better UI and a better discover page mainly. Plus it's gotten a lot of organic advertising just from luck and people talking about it, and no obvious competitor like Bluesky
Hell yeah! 2025 is the year of the ~~linux~~ Fediverse ~~desktop~~!
It is simple and free of bloat. I like it much better than that youtube shorts analog I can't remember the name of.
Yeah but pixelfed is coming out with loops, it's been on beta for awhile, that is basically Tik Tok with no ads or government/big tech ownership. I personally feel like that could have taken a giant chunk of the Tik Tok users and kept them from having to learn to read ideograms to access content they wanted. I don't personally use that format of social media but I tried it on Android and it looks just like Tik Tok looked that I have seen on others devices.
The only reason why no company could take over TikTok is their algorithm, its the worst yet the best part of the app, since you only see stuff you like, without having to search for similar accounts. I’ve been feeling lonely on the Fedi compared to other socials
I just can't imagine who will pay for that sort of reach. It's incredibly expensive for self hosting operations like TikTok. I'd imagine it'd be outrageous without a CDN.
Maybe a CDN funded through a few non-profits, never looked into it
I was curious what the other apps were, found the list: https://fedidb.org/software
Any entry into the Fediverse is a good one!
Gateway drug!
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