The developer behind Pixelfed, Loops, and Sup, open source alternatives to Instagram, TikTok, and WhatsApp, respectively, is now raising funds on Kickstarter to fuel the apps’ further development.

The trio is part of the growing open social web, also known as the fediverse, powered by the same ActivityPub protocol used by X alternative Mastodon. The latter saw increased signups and use after the company formerly known as Twitter sold to Elon Musk in October 2022 and during the X exodus that followed the U.S. presidential election.

In the months and years following that sale, open source and decentralized apps like Mastodon and Bluesky (which uses the newer AT Protocol), have continued to grow their user bases, as people sought alternatives to centralized social media apps controlled by billionaires like Musk and Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg.

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[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 0 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It is insanely rare for people on Pixelfed to post images of text.

Which is meaningless because:

PF is federated
Not yet

the global feed is mostly useless on Pixelfed because you're inundated with Mastodon users "quoting" by posting images of text

My point, precisely. There is no Pixelfed-only feed.

I don't see why everything has to be everything

Because there's no value in limiting what the users can do on it. Because it's very easy to bypass, but in a very shitty way, which people are already doing all the time.

[–] breakfastmtn@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Yes, there needs to be a Pixelfed-global feed. It was planned at one point. Right now, the Pixelfed servers are islands separated by an ocean of Mastodon posts. It's a problem.

Because there’s no value in limiting what the users can do on it. Because it’s very easy to bypass, but in a very shitty way, which people are already doing all the time.

I already told you the value. When I'm on Pixelfed, I only want to see photos. If it was like you're proposing, I'd stop using it and encourage someone to make the thing that currently exists. If I'm on loops, I don't want a bunch of long- or short-form text. At all. Including other things is removing value.

You should use Friendica! It's exactly what you want. We can all have what we want.

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 1 points 5 days ago

You should use Friendica!

I might think about if I could actually see absolutely anything without creating an account.