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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9th in Finland
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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.
Lemmy currently don’t have API for that.
Fuck it, I’m joining now.
Weird, I don’t see it. Instead, I see a bunch of proprietary apps.
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
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
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.
Can we advertise instances? lol I started one for makers making things. (it’s brand new so its empty)
Fine with me 🤷
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
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
Another shitty “feature” brought over from Instagram, I suppose.
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?
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.
I dunno. I don’t really even care much for PixelFed myself.
https://pixelfed.fediverse.observer/dailystats
Be interesting to see what it looks like a month from now – the size of plateau and drop-off.
Me working with small businesses to switch off of Instagram
My girlfriend runs a kid-friendly café for younger moms and sadly it would probably tank her business moving over to pixelfed… It’s quite a big risk for those kind of small businesses…
You can post the same stuff on as many social media platforms as you want.
Thank you for your service
Hot damn, it moved up 3 spots from just the other day!
GO PIXELFED GO!
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 minus Meta.
It’s a non-shitty instagram.
Ty
Instagram
Open source and decentralized Instagram alternative.
Loops.video is an open source and decentralized TikTok alternative.
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
Ty
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
BlueSky being ahead of X is a real testament to how Mastodon users are insufferable and hostile. I love and use Mastodon but Jesus Christ, make some jokes and relax. Al Gore didn’t take the lead in creating the Internet for people to be insufferable. If a game is on, people might talk about it. Don’t chime in about colonialism or whatever during the game. Relax. We’ll talk about that on a weekday.
“Here’s my angry, unpopular, barely coherent diatribe apropos of nothing about this large and diverse group of people definitely being angry and hostile.”
That’s like saying all Lemmy users are hostile.
FUCK YOU!
Pass the beans when you get a chance? Thanks!
Are they the kind that make you hold in your poop? Asking for a friend.
But the thing is that here in Europe, we are more relaxed than USians because we have government mandated vacation days. It’s even better when I get sick at the same time because I can catch a free ambulance ride to the hospital near the beach since there is no “out of network” medical care (whatever that means) here. I can then take mass transit from the hospital to the beach and make university-educated friends with everyone because tuition here is free. Because I didn’t die in a mass shooting when leaving the beach, I can order a reasonably-sized meal that doesn’t cause instant cardiovascular disease and not leave a tip because our servers are paid a living wage. I can’t imagine the horror of living in such an underdeveloped country as USA. I am so glad I am in the EU.
- Sent from my phone without concern of being doxxed or tracked thanks to EU privacy laws
TIL Al Gore invented the internet?
In the same way that Elon Musk created Tesla’s cars and SpaceX’s rockets, yes.
Al Gore didn’t take the lead in creating the Internet for people to be insufferable.
I dunno man, it seems pretty in-character to me! 🤓
Hear hear. I subscribed to a couple news accounts and for last minute news its just perfect. But man, start browsing the popular section and you’re in for a fuckton of activism.
