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.
Fuck it, I’m joining now.
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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
And if you didn’t already know, you now know about the Streisand effect.
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?
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!
You’re right! Only new posts come up! I followed some more general tags and started getting posts. Thanks!
I don’t think you can
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.
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.
Instagram
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.
I don’t really understand it either. I think it’s dumb. And I think PixelFed is dumb. And Mastodon. And Loops. But I’m glad they exist. Everyone is better off if people start switching. Everyone except Meta.
I’m happy with Lemmy+Photon.
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.
It’s a non-shitty instagram.
It’s Instagram with no content or algorithm. To me it’s an empty page, because I have no idea how to subscribe to things that I would like.
I tried keywords like fun, sketch, photography etc etc, but those are catch-all phrases that get too much shit, and narrow keywords are so specific, I see next to nothing.
I have the same issue on Mastodon & Loops: lack of ways to find new content.
There needs to be a Lemmy thread of interesting people to follow so I can get some use out of the rest of the fediverse… Suggestions welcome!
Start following hashtags that match your interests.
I think there needs to be a way to plug algorithms in for those that want them.
Agreed, you could pick your own algorithm(s) to follow just like hashtags, maybe just a “follow this hashtag and similar engagement posts”. It might be an easier transition from the imposed monolithic algorithm God that meta/google impose if people are in control of how the app feeds them.
Agreed. Bluesky-style customizable algorithms (I’ve played around with creating these myself) in conjunction with “recommended follows” curated by the instance admin would go a long way.
Thats the problem that their algo tries to solve. When you do it in scale some kind of algo is needed.
I guess looking for interesting people is not the way the fediverse is supposed to be used. People should look for interesting content to imitate or to learn from, content coming from any user, not from users paid to do unbelievable actions or stunts
Ty
It’s like federated insta. But for your purposes you can upload images directly to your lemmy instance.
I use a 3rd party app, “Boost” and I mostly get errors trying to upload photos.
Instagram minus Meta.
Open source and decentralized Instagram alternative.
Loops.video is an open source and decentralized TikTok alternative.
Ty
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
9th in Finland
torille
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?
It’s pretty terrible tbh, I keep having to go back to the browser.
Give Fedilab a try. I’ve been using it for about a year now; it’s been pretty smooth and straight forward.
I dunno. I don’t really even care much for PixelFed myself.
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Pixelfed doesn’t have any sort of “communities” or other way to curate content (not even hashtags) so you’re just going to see whatever people are posting.
As another commentor mentioned, you can join a specific instance intended for a specific type of post, but there’s nothing stopping someone from joining there and posting selfies other than good will.
Pixelfed.art is all artists posting their work!
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Weird, I don’t see it. Instead, I see a bunch of proprietary apps.
You have a very long phone
Samsung phones have this cool feature where you take screenshot and then you can extend this screenshot by tapping a button.
I’ve never seen that before. That’s a good feature.
It’s under the social feed.
Or maybe it can be because I have a Slovak account.
EDIT: It’s 43rd in Slovakia.
It is because I’m Slovak since Facebook is one of the most downloaded social media here
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?
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.
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.
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.
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I actually agree. Some of these federated services are fundamentally different and when they interact, shit can get weird. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t think, for example, Sharkkey shouldn’t interact with Mastodon, because they are both microblogging platforms, but I wouldn’t want to see a picture of a tweet from Mastodon on Pixelfed.
Some people on Mastodon or other microblogging fediverse basically using their account for image only gallery.
It definitely nice to see Misskey.design or Mastoart.social post on Pixelfed.
Lemmy currently don’t have API for that.
I still can’t log into the darn android app. Takes me to the pixelfed.social login, then does nothing.
But one day I’ll love it, I’m sure.
Check pixelix app
It seems to be dependent on the browser for login for some reason, which caused problems for me as well.
which Browser works? i tried several.
edit: i think i read it wrong, anyways, if you figured out how to solve it, please tell.
Well, the problem I had was likely different than yours. The sign-in link was being picked up by Shizuku and opening it in Moshidon, which obviously didn’t work. The solution was trying it 2-3x until it was able to be opened in the browser. I also have my browser set to open links in a private window so I had to go and reverse that temporarily and then go back and reverse it again.
I had to disconnect from my WiFi to get it to load. I think my PiHole was blocking a link shortener or something they are using.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
Does anyone know if you can only have one pixelfeed account per email address? I want to make one for personal use and one just my garden pictures?
Why won’t you be able to create two accounts?
Some systems tie one email address to one account only. Just wondering. I’ll try it out to see i guess
