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  • Open source alternatives to Instagram, TikTok, and WhatsApp raise funds on Kickstarter | TechCrunch

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  • Yes, there needs to be a Pixelfed-global feed. It was planned at one point. Right now, the Pixelfed servers are islands separated by an ocean of Mastodon posts. It's a problem.

    Because there’s no value in limiting what the users can do on it. Because it’s very easy to bypass, but in a very shitty way, which people are already doing all the time.

    I already told you the value. When I'm on Pixelfed, I only want to see photos. If it was like you're proposing, I'd stop using it and encourage someone to make the thing that currently exists. If I'm on loops, I don't want a bunch of long- or short-form text. At all. Including other things is removing value.

    You should use Friendica! It's exactly what you want. We can all have what we want.

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  • PixelFed adopted the very annoying features of Instagram that require photos, but no one cares and they just post photos of text, and with the federation of other platforms like Mastodon, that’s just going to happen. It also lacks the ability to follow hashtags, so it’s actually worse than IG in some ways.

    The purpose of Pixelfed is photo-sharing. When I'm using Pixelfed I don't want to see everything, I just want photos. It is insanely rare for people on Pixelfed to post images of text. In fact, the global feed is mostly useless on Pixelfed because you're inundated with Mastodon users "quoting" by posting images of text. But they just announced that they're soon including a setting to allow text posts, allowing the Pixelfed app to be used as a Mastodon client.

    You can follow hash tags on Pixelfed.

    I don't see why everything has to be everything. Mastodon is for micro-blogging. If you're posting 20,000 word essays, you're not really micro-blogging. These all seem like reasonable choices for their intended purposes, not like mistakes at all. It might just be a mistake for you to choose those when what you want is Friendica.

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  • But what can replace Facebook that doesn't look like it was made in 1996? ;)

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  • You forgot someone..

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  • Threads is offically getting ads

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  • Nice. Get ready to scale your servers, folks!

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  • ...and they said you were mad to hoard all that blubber!

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  • Must be a time travel thing. Some advice for you, visitors from 24 hours ago: learn Dutch. The Netherlands conquered the world in the 18-hour war and English is a dying language. And stock up on whale blubber. You're gonna need it.

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  • Dunno. It's $78K now.

  • A Request to the Fediverse Community

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  • You're gonna regret asking me to post more but... your wish is my command! 🪄

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    Is there a "normie" or more mainstream instance for Lemmy?

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  • I'm not sure that "got yelled at" is a great metric. On L.W., it probably depends on the community a bit but it's not likely they're getting yelled at by a mod, or having their post/comment deleted, right? No one's going to ban their account there.

    In terms of users -- except for the bad places -- everywhere is "here." You can block people that are being exceptionally dickish too.

    And, real talk, you can say "it's a beautiful day today" and there'll be two dildos that downvote you and maybe someone that's like "not everywhere!!!" Don't let it get ya down.

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  • They're about to launch a second flagship server to relieve some of the stress on p.s. It sounds like it'll be in the next day or two (but you never know with them).

    Might be a good option if you're still having trouble when they fire it up.

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  • The server's getting hammered today for sure. People on the server are posting at a rate of 5 posts per second. It's wild.

    Registrations are open though. The local timeline is filled with first posts from accounts created today.

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  • Pixelfed just overtook Lemmy as the 4th most used Fediverse software.

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  • Word.

  • Pixelfed just overtook Lemmy as the 4th most used Fediverse software.

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  • Oh yeah, I can see how it could feel slow. 3000 active users vs. 160,000 on pixelfed.social.

    Well, hope the global feed situation gets sorted out for you one way or another!

  • Pixelfed just overtook Lemmy as the 4th most used Fediverse software.

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  • Are you on a smaller server? The local feeds of the larger ones are crazy right now.

    The other apps all support the global feed. The web-ui does too. The Android app is not great right now so I've been using Pixelix. The global feed's pretty useless though, IMO. You kind of get buried in Mastodon people "quoting" with images of text. They really need a Pixelfed-Global feed because it's pretty damn hard to discover people on other Pixelfed servers right now.

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  • Twitter. With a little google drive thrown into the mix. Plus simple custom algorithmic feeds. And some kooky animation stuff.

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  • Pixelix!

    It's a couple bucks in the Play store or free on F-Droid.