Is this the fediverse’s answer to Instagram?
Hell yeah! 2025 is the year of the
linuxFediversedesktop!My feed on Pixelfed is way better the second week, now that I’ve followed a couple dozen folks and put some posts out there.
And pro tip: Post and tag a cute picture of your pet and people will see your account.
They need some starter packs like BlueSky because all I’m seeing are some art photography highly likely ai generated - and I have no idea where to find content that has any value. On searching the hashtags I’m getting mastodon posts containing links that can’t be clicked.
I thought that my first couple of days, but TBH, I actually really like that Fedi social media is completely self-directed. Not having the Jack Dorseys, Donald Trumps, and Zuckerbergs of the world vomiting content or stupid ads onto my feed is well worth the modicum of extra effort.
I found half of the people I’m following just by posting a picture of my dog and tagging it #CuteAnimals, and that got a nice response. I do follow a few hashtags and found follows there, but I will probably take them off once I’m up to 30-40 follows and I like my feed.
People share photos and videos all the time on mastodon. What is the difference with pixelfed?
Better UI and a better discover page mainly. Plus it’s gotten a lot of organic advertising just from luck and people talking about it, and no obvious competitor like Bluesky
Is there any integration with Lemmy? Cross promotion would be awesome, and something big tech can’t actually do.
I am but a humble end user using the web interface, but I do know mastodon comments can somehow show up on Lemmy.
Does anyone have recommendations who to follow on pixelfed?
Yeah dude me obviously. @mayur@pixelfed.social
It is simple and free of bloat. I like it much better than that youtube shorts analog I can’t remember the name of.
Runs much faster than java BlueSky, the destroyer of batteries.
Everything helps.
No corporations in social media. No venture capital in social media.
One question, does LBRY (The protocol powering Odysee) count as something Federated ?
Misskey seems really popular looking at numbers. I’m confused because nobody talks about it. Is it because of some niche super active audience?
Its active in the non-english circles from what I hear. Probably a part of it.
Also does anyone know how to get the post into lemmy? Im having issues importing other fediverse posts so I had to direct link. I would rather the owner of the post get recognition and likes/shares show up in mastodon/activityhub rather than just a static link on lemmy if possible.
For example on mastodon/pixelfed/etc… I can pull the remote url and create a post/share. It seems specific to lemmy.world. On other lemmy platforms, I can see posts, just older ones.
That’s the neat part! Lemmy.world doesn’t allow that😂😂😂. Best bet to move over to another instance if you like that type of integration.
Edited for misinterpretation
I thought I could do that on other lemmy instances?"
I can see: https://lemmy.world/u/atomicpoet@atomicpoet.org for example, it just isnt pulling anything new.
and nothing but you can see the user here: https://piefed.social/u/atomicpoet@atomicpoet.org
Edited, apologies
Its all good, any good examples of this specific link? I can see some old posts from the user but nothing recent on ANY lemmy instance. So you earier comment may be correct.
Yes, https://blog.elenarossini.com/the-future-of-social-is-here-a-show-and-tell-part-4-lemmy-piefed-mbin/
Go down to the section where it discusses interoperability, came across this as I was trying to understand and learn which software I should use for my own server/instance
Neat, is there a way to share from Immich to Pixelfed?
It’s always going to be like that; photo blogging is a lot more popular than niche forums and bulletin boards.
Also, Pixelfed has a lot more eyes on it because of Meta being in the news.
It’s not a bad thing though.
Anyone have success joining pixelfed.art? Still waiting to get approved over a week later.
Still feels empty
