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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.
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?
Lemmy currently don't have API for that.
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.
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.
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
I don't want the content to be outside the app, I want the content to be the photos people post.
Another shitty "feature" brought over from Instagram, I suppose.
Can we advertise instances? lol I started one for makers making things. (it's brand new so its empty) Edit: It's https://pixels.makearmy.io/ for anyone who's curious. We're on a small time server so no promises as to performance, still working out the bugs and such but if you're curious check it out.
Fine with me 🤷
Fuck it, I'm joining now.
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
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
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.
It's a non-shitty instagram.
It's Instagram with no content or algorithm. To me it's an empty page, because I have no idea how to subscribe to things that I would like.
I tried keywords like fun, sketch, photography etc etc, but those are catch-all phrases that get too much shit, and narrow keywords are so specific, I see next to nothing.
I have the same issue on Mastodon & Loops: lack of ways to find new content.
There needs to be a Lemmy thread of interesting people to follow so I can get some use out of the rest of the fediverse... Suggestions welcome!
Start following hashtags that match your interests.
Thats the problem that their algo tries to solve. When you do it in scale some kind of algo is needed.
Ty
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.
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.
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.
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.
