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[-] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 17 points 3 hours ago
[-] pseudo@jlai.lu 3 points 1 hour ago
[-] rosahaj 46 points 8 hours ago

Hell yeah! 2025 is the year of the ~~linux~~ Fediverse ~~desktop~~!

[-] 9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.works 16 points 7 hours ago

People share photos and videos all the time on mastodon. What is the difference with pixelfed?

[-] rumba@lemmy.zip 20 points 5 hours ago

Everything on Fedi is just different interfaces and perf from the user perspective.

People want to continue to use something close to Instagram, Facebook, Reddit, Twitter but not be locked to their enshitified companies who decide what they get to see.

Many that come over find out there's no algorithm and that they have to follow people to get any content, they find they miss the doom scroll and go straight back.

[-] shortrounddev@lemmy.world 8 points 4 hours ago

Every one of these federated apps needs a strong meme feed. Just an endless stream of shitposts and funny content. Doesn't need to be doomscrolling, just needs to be a constantly available source of low effort junk food content

[-] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 hours ago

!lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world ?

[-] MysticKetchup@lemmy.world 18 points 7 hours ago

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

[-] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 4 points 5 hours ago

Different vibes. I am really liking the pixelfed UI.

[-] dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)
[-] witten@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Yes. No transcoding, but that's actually a feature as far as I'm concerned.

[-] utopiah@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago

Neat, is there a way to share from Immich to Pixelfed?

[-] eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 72 points 16 hours ago

Kick ass! I'm all for more Fediverse stuff getting popular, and if this has any competition, just means more features will be added across all of them.

[-] BigBenis@lemmy.world 52 points 16 hours ago

Is this the fediverse's answer to Instagram?

[-] hanrahan@slrpnk.net 16 points 7 hours ago

Yes and the same developer does Loops, the TikTok "equivalent"

Not sure when he sleeps

[-] bruhsoulz@lemmy.ml 51 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

Yes.

-Instagram has pixelfed. -Reddit has lemmy -X has Mastodon/Misskey/Pleroma (&forks..) -Tiktok has loops (app still super rough around the edges and sadly on limited to one instance rather than having its own software from what i understand) -Youtube has peertube (so far the least used i think)

[-] TurtleSoup@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 minute ago

Yea peertube is rough... Mostly in part due to, in my opinion at least, people wanting to make use of YouTube's ad revenue system even tho most creators I watch making most of their income via donations rather than ad revenue.

[-] dragonfucker@lemmy.nz 4 points 7 hours ago

Is there federated Tumblr? @Newbuild@lemmy.nz is still on Tumblr and drag wants to get thing away from corporate media even if Tumblr has a better record than literally every other corpo media

[-] rumba@lemmy.zip 3 points 6 hours ago

Microblogging is covered by Mastodon and Pleroma. People there could easily use them for the same content. There are a ton of options to crosspost tumblr to Mastodon.

The biggest problem is discovery on Tumblr is a LOT easier than Mastodon, you have to advertise and advocate for yourself

[-] bruhsoulz@lemmy.ml 2 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Sorry, genuinely forgot what tumblr even does/is lol.

[-] dragonfucker@lemmy.nz 2 points 7 hours ago

lmao. Bot got drag to make an account and tried to teach drag, and drag still doesn't get it either. Bot can explain.

[-] Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 34 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

I can't wait for peertube to take off. I think of all of the social medias, youtube has the most enduring monopoly, because hosting is such a huge barrier it's got even more of a natural monopoly than regular social media.

I think once peertube can start ascending that might be the ballgame for decentralised social media in general.

[-] bruhsoulz@lemmy.ml 12 points 8 hours ago

Exactly!! YouTube is by far the best "social" platform (or least shit) and sadly the strongest monopoly. Cus what the fuck is a newly made competitor gonna do? Rip all YouTube videos and host them? People on IG and X etc don't really go around looking at old posts, those places are more for looking at what's new and such. On YouTube however its entirely game that u find a dope edutainment video from years ago that you happen to vibe with.

[-] Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 6 points 7 hours ago

That is very true, and I think some kind of archive is going to be important eventually. I think to get around the hosting costs, one method could be for peertube instances to form a union of instances for collective purchases, because the cost goes down with scale.

With a large enough group you could even split hosting among different providers to prevent a monopoly from forming in the hosting space.

[-] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 4 points 8 hours ago

Does peertube have monetization for creator's? Because that's how you get content that most people watch.

[-] Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 10 points 7 hours ago

Honestly youtube barely has it currently. The vast majority of creators make very little on the platform and rely largely on supporter donations, merch and sponsorships, which could work on any platform.

By squeezing creators out of every penny they can, youtube has forced people to find other options abd made themselves less and less relevant. I guess that's enshittification for you.

You can also gate access to certain videos on peertube, so a nebula-like model might also work eventually.

[-] bruhsoulz@lemmy.ml 4 points 7 hours ago

I'm genuinely confused. Is YouTube even profitable ATP? Hard to imagine it not being so but they've been doubling down on squeezing out every coin they can, trying to fight adblock is one example, pushing out more ads too. Wtf even is going on over there.

[-] roguetrick@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago

Different metrics on profitability. Are you judging their hosting costs on how much it actually costs Google to add more in their already existing data centers for YouTube like a good vertically integrated monopoly or are you judging their hosting costs on how much their google cloud bill would be. You'll get wildly different numbers depending on the method.

[-] 3dmvr@lemm.ee 7 points 12 hours ago

I dont understand how to join or post on peertube, its the most confusing, do you host your own, is there a feed of all the servers?

[-] bruhsoulz@lemmy.ml 6 points 8 hours ago

You just pick an instance and join it, sadly i don't think it has enough federation yet so its entirely possible u just chose a bad instance and have amazing creators sitting on other instances yours isn't federated with

[-] 3dmvr@lemm.ee 3 points 7 hours ago

If you f up and join lemmy.dbzero you wont see any posts from lemmyworld users and the same issue if you join the other

[-] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 hours ago

Incorrect, I'm on dbzer0 and see all of LW just fine

[-] imaqtpie@lemmy.myserv.one 3 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 10 minutes ago)

That's actually not true. Lemmy.world and lemmy.dbzer0.com are fully federated, you can see for yourself if you check the instances tab.

The only thing that people incessantly complain about is that lemmy.world blocked one single community from dbzer0, the piracy community. For an account on lemmy.dbzer0, that has absolutely no effect. For an account on lemmy.world, that just means they need an alt if they want to participate in that one community. The two userbases can still fully interact all over lemmy, it's just that lemmy.world decided to block the piracy community to cover their asses legally.

Look, here's https://lemmy.world/c/adhd@lemmy.dbzer0.com

But people make such a big deal about that one blocked community that a lot of people get the idea that they are defederated or something. You're not the first person I've had to correct about this, not even the first this week lol.

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[-] tfowinder@lemmy.ml 9 points 12 hours ago

Looks really cool, just discovered something liket his existed.

[-] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 331 points 21 hours ago

When a fediverse app wins, the whole fediverse wins. A rising tide lifts all ships or however it goes.

[-] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 35 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

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.

[-] whereisk@lemmy.world 15 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

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.

[-] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago

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.

[-] bufalo1973@lemm.ee 1 points 7 hours ago

Search with the magnifying glass icon. In Discover maybe you can find something.

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