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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As someone who doesn’t use these platforms (except Twitter), why does Pixelfed’s UI look just like Instagram, and why does Bluesky’s UI look just like Twitter? Are they just cut/paste copies?
They’re not cut/paste copies, they’re rebuilt from the ground up. The UI is similar because they want to retain familiarity and decrease barriers to entry. Much like Lemmy.
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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.
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!
Wow, I just followed the link and browsed a little bit. There’s some really amazing stuff there!
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.
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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.
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.
It’s under the social feed.
Or maybe it can be because I have a Slovak account.
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?
Do we actually want that? I like that each service is its own.
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.
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.
Lemmy currently don’t have API for that.
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.
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.
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
I don’t want the content to be outside the app, I want the content to be the photos people post.
Then don’t follow any links to outside the app… Why shouldn’t they be usable for people who want to though?
Because it encourages gamification, advertising, malware, and illegal content.
If you want links, use the link sharing forums.
TIL wanting to follow a link to the website of a game that someone posted a screenshot of encourages illegal activity. Here I thought I was just using the Internet. Pixelfed should not allow text, comments or engagement at all in that case. It could lead to gamification. How dare people enjoy things differently than you want them to?
No, it’s advertising.
I don’t want it for me. It doesn’t have it.
You want it for you, you have other options.
Another shitty “feature” brought over from Instagram, I suppose.
Can we advertise instances? lol I started one for makers making things. (it’s brand new so its empty)
Fine with me 🤷
Fuck it, I’m joining now.
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
If they had gotten loops into the stores they could have gained so many users this past week im sure
Imagine being the one guy who runs both of those and having them both blow up at once though 🪦rip
