This is great! Pixelfed has been getting an influx of new users lately and it makes me happy that these sites are getting more traction!
this post was submitted on 18 Jan 2025
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You what we need? A snapchat alternative. I actually like the idea of snapchat even though i hate the product. Just sending a random picture to your freinds every day is a cool thing imo. And it would be pretty easy to implement probably because you wouldnt need to federate posts just send it to the users you sent it to.
Signal has a lot of overlap there. They've got disappearing messages and Stories
I've heard discussion of Pixelfed on both TikTok and RedNote, which is exciting! Hopefully it's easy to use.
Is Loops proprietary ? (I'm being serious here)
Dansup is required to release the source code for Loops under the Nlnet grant's conditions I believe.
That clears my doubts, thank you
Source hasn't been released, but the dev has said it will be and there's no reason to doubt that IMO. Same dev as pixelfed which is open source and federated
The Fediverse needs UI work. The new world needs a new internet.
I'm thankful we have this glorified hobbyist project of a micro internet, because it's awesome. It's time for real layout work to make things more intuitive, instead of this "just solder it" open-source-in-the-bad-way energy that sometimes gets half-assedly splattered around.
For everybody who has and is working on the Fediverse, thank you.
"The UI is bad" is the stock attack on any open-source project. Doesn't matter how good the UI actually is, or how bad the corporate version is, "bad UI" is such a nebulous criticism that you can apply it to anything.
Which is amusing, because the UX for Facebook, X and TikTok are horrendous also. So much stuff buried under layers of settings
What is a "Good UI/UX" ?
This will never happen without funding. Open Source severaly lacks funding big corporations have.
If they made it so your average joe could contribute to the Fediverse with their own hardware I'd contribute. Tired of seeing social media be owned by Billionares.
I wonder if you'll mention Gemini, just for fun
The reason I dislike this comment is it characterizes the work of many different people as "don't care." I would bet money that there are people who work on fediverse projects who care very deeply about UX but have to settle because they have day jobs.
The UI's aren't that bad. They're replicating existing apps/styles and then bolting on features. In some clases like immich, they're replicating them so closely they're probably open for lawsuit :)
Loops is 75% TikToc. Lemmy is 60% Reddit.
If we had a couple of UI artists and Usability people join the projects and crank out designs, I wonder if the devs would implement them and spend the time making the output true to the design.
Lemmy is lucky to have alternative frontend like Photon, Tesseract and Alexandrite
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I was surprised when my friend casually brought up Pixelfed (he called it "Pixelfeed") and Bluesky the other day.
For the average person who doesn't understand or care about federated systems, "pixelfeed" is probably a better name. It feeds you pixels.
tbh I always thought of the original name as “being fed by pixels”
I'm guessing it's a pun on both fed meaning "eats, runs on, is powered by" and "federation/fediverse."
Mainstream media is an antiquated term. Been a while since they've been mainstream. Corporate media, or legacy media even, is more suitable nowadays.
It's like how people still say "internet famous." There are Tiktokkers with larger followings than movie stars these days.
Is that really the same thing though? Just for a random example of the first actor that popped in my head, Chloe Grace Moretz probably doesn't have as big a social media following as Skibidi Kid or whereas I could probably find random people in the streets in the 3rd world country that I live in if I just had to start bringing up her name without any further details. Whereas Skibidi Kid is only known by the other Skibidi kids on that particular platform and probably won't even be a big deal next year, like Dab Kid.
I used to see people express the same sentiment towards YouTubers and it's the same deal there IMO. SaltyPeeDrinker or whatever might cause a big ruckus in certain circles on the internet and have a bunch of incel fans but outside of the internet and in the real world, nobody actually gives a fuck. Not in remotely the same way as with movie stars, music stars, sports stars etc. These people aren't that important or significant, they're just another feature of online brainrot.
Edit: I feel like online 'content' creators are related to actors and musicians in the same way that AI art is related to human art or reality TV is related to Breaking Bad.
And what was everyone watching during the pandemic? Tiger King.
You can think as much or as little of social media and/or the film industry as you like, but there a noticeable change in the older media regarding its "talent": It's less common for them to have personal brands, quite unlike social media personalities.
I hear your point but also it might be a mostly first world thing. So kinda like comparing local country music artists to Michael Jackson. Maybe other 3rd world denizens can chip in but here (so this is purely anecdotal) but in my corner of the world, we watched movies and series and played games and shit like we would've pre social media.
Personally I'm not even sure what Tiger King is (and not that interested in finding out either, if I'm being honest) and if I go outside and ask around here, I'm not sure how many answers I would get. Possibly I'd get an answer once school is out and kids are around, I guess.
Edit: just to add, I hope this doesn't go the same way as the time I was trying to explain to Americans that the NBA really isn't this global phenomenon in every household and that John Cena is probably more famous here.
Just remember this when you see people complain about having to pick a server when joining Mastodon. It's not that, maybe it's just not easy/intuitive lile PixelFed is making it? I don't know.
And then when people were joining, I just saw them complaining about all the anger/aggression on Mastodon. It may've missed a big jump on point with Bluesky's rise, but there will invariably be more. People just have to be ready and willing.
Great! Seems like a small subset of people are coming to the fediverse again like durring the reddit blackout. Always love having more people to speak to.
Excellent. They are seeing huge growth. I'm hoping it's sustainable, the main server is just getting slammed right now (according to the mastodon posts).
According to fedidb all they need is 70k ish more people and I get will surpass Lemmy in number of users.
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Kickstarter coming sometime soon to get some more resources going for it and related projects. will be interesting to see if it's effective.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pixelfed/pixelfed-foundation-2024-real-ethical-social-networks
Dan tends to work on too many things simultaneously (which isn't bad per say, and he thrives doing so) which means things get stalled and its a little hectic. Hoping more funds and community excitement will help spread the work out more and allow him to keep working as he does without other projects being on pause in the meantime.
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Great stuff, I don’t do Instagram but I installed the app just to boast their numbers a little
I’m doing my part!
I also intalled it and im just gonna post cat and nature picks to boost the numbers and maybe even engage with the community. Never used instagram before but maybe this is the thing thats gonna encourage me.
I don't do Instagram either but PixelFed has pretty chill vibes. I followed some hashtags like #cat and #nature and now I have a nice little feed of cats and nature.
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