I mean, they can and are doing that right now, haha! 😂
And sometimes they even have a point, buried incredibly deeply, about how we could improve things across the Threadiverse, but it requires so very much effort to translate past all the BS and outright lies (intentional or otherwise) that 99/100 times it simply is not worth the effort. Plus it leaves you drained, exhausted, and burnt-out, without a clear vision of what needs doing in order to move forward.
Which is presumably the very point of much of this drama seeking - to throw everything at the wall and see what sticks, in order to "win" their POV by any means necessary (rather than aim for truth as an end-goal and work towards that collectively).
Because more people would be promoting it if that were the case? It is what it is, I'm not meaning to knock it, just wanting to seek clarity in its promotion. There are always going to be trade-offs, and it is up to each end-user to decide whether they can live with them.
Tbf all of these tools - and Pixelfed more than most - are so very new, and being developed on a shoestring budget using volunteer efforts that are not seeking capitalistic remuneration. And being able to pull in old posts is a very niche feature that affects an instance pretty much only once, upon its initial creation and then never again, so it might not be a top priority for its dev team to implement. Though a lot of teams for Fediverse tools (like PieFed) tend to be quite responsive, and pinging them may help them realize that it needs to be done sooner, i.e. communication of that may be helpful rather than annoying?
Whereas ATproto's main downsides lay in it lacking "robustness" for the future - what happens when like pretty much every Internet company that ever existed (Google, Meta, Amazon, etc.), they decide to switch from attempts to attract a wider user base to trying to monetizate its content? Suddenly all those ATproto connections become a liability where someone can access the content held hostage therein without having to watch advertisements that benefit the main branch, thereby switching the collaborative model to a competitive one.
ATproto is strictly better in the short term, and will cause much pain later on, as opposed to the Fediverse that has some onboarding and ongoing pains now but to some people offer better hopes for the future of a more unfettered/unconstrained method of interaction between people, where control is placed more democratically into the hands of the end users rather than centralized authorities.
But there is no mobile version, and their FAQ says it's unlikely to happen. Instead they point to IronFox, which I presume is nowhere close to feature equivalent to Firefox.
I can't speak to how Pixelfed works, but PieFed pulls in old posts. e.g. when lemm.ee (a Lemmy instance) shut down, several communities were migrated, including its old content.
Perhaps one day Pixelfed will implement that as well.
You can tell because one is a person, the other is software.
And while we are at it, https://piefed.social/ is neither - it is an instance, like https://quokk.au/ is an instance, both of which run the PieFed software.
Your agenda is not supported by facts. There are definitely problems that need solving, though this post helps solve none of them.
If you want to help, stick with the facts, they will work better than emotional appeals, if the goal is truly to improve things on the Threadiverse/Fediverse.
That is "free speech" 101: everyone must have the ability to listen to their BS. They burn books, while you are "free" to "speak" only one among the approved talking points, which may shift over time. e.g. they routinely call for murder, even for admins of other instances, yet they are perpetually the wronged and totally innocent party, never admitting an ounce of responsibility to others, yet demanding "fair" treatment in return (which as the quotes suggest, is the epitome of unfairness actually, due to being lopsided - but somehow the righteousness of their cause justifies their zeolosness; in short, in their view their good end somehow justifies the means, and not only in terms of promoting irl murder but also in using lies over the internet).
When you see the similarities between the argumentation practices used by incels and tankies it suddenly all makes perfect sense. DOn'T yOu KnOw WhAt A nIcE mAn I aM? Watch Innuendo Studios The Alt-Right Playbook series for a treat. Their goal is not arriving at truth via means of discourse, they use toddler tactics where they want to WIN, by any means necessary. And since Might Makes Right in their view, they push as far forward as others will allow, i.e. until others expend the effort to stop them, while they refuse to stop themselves or to abide by the conventions that exist in a more polite society (which they explicitly excuse themselves from, again citing their excuses as to why you should be okay with their zeolotry, thereby gaslighting you into their worldview - as in its surely not their problem that they are lying, its everyone else's fault for not doing as they say).
