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Twitter alternatives (mastodon), instagram alternative (pixelfed), reddit alternative (prismo.news)... Things are looking great!
can you browse without signing up? I'd like to follow from my mastadon client
I'm wondering the same. I wanted to look at a Pixelfed instance to see if it was worth joining (or following from a different account in the fediverse)--and I can't even see whether or not I like the content without making an account? I can see why a for-profit app like Instagram would force everyone to sign up to browse, since that helps their bottom line, but I can't see why that decision would be made here.
By that I mean, does Pixelfed integrate with Mastodon in such a way that a Mastodon server could also run a Pixelfed server instance, and use the same user database for both services?
For example, the Mastodon server I am on, vis.social [1], seems like a place whose user base might want to use Pixelfed. That Mastodon server describes itself as “a social space for anyone in data, visualization, creative coding, and related arts and research.” (Said description is what prompted me to choose this specific server when creating my Mastodon account.)
This feels like a huge barrier to adoption for them beyond the nerdiest of nerds.
I like Instagram because I get to see what my friends are up to. How will I get my friends on this?
Is this compatible with existng solutions like Mastodon?
And why just images? Why not videos/documents/music or even events?
How long will the images be available? Who is paying for storage?
How does the technology compare to IPFS?
I clicked the link and... have no idea what this is. It looks like instagram maybe? I can't even figure out how to figure out what it is. The only clickable thing I see is "@admin" which just takes me to what looks like an Instagram page. It doesn't even mention fediverse on that page, and even if it did, you'd have to know what the fediverse is. This feels like a huge barrier to adoption for them beyond the nerdiest…
I clicked the link and... have no idea what this is. It looks like instagram maybe? I can't even figure out how to figure out what it is. The only clickable thing I see is "@admin" which just takes me to what looks like an Instagram page. It doesn't even mention fediverse on that page, and even if it did, you'd have to know what the fediverse is. This feels like a huge barrier to adoption for them beyond the nerdiest…
But yeah, this is more or less federated Instagram, but the federation is still a work-in-progress, AFAIK.
I'm in the process to move out mass-surveillance social sites like FB, Twitter, Google, ... I'm about to install my own Matrix and ActivityPub nodes (Mastodon, Pleroma, PeerTube, ...) on a cheap VPS. I also have my own email domain hosted at Fastmail.com (I don't want to manage an email server). This way I'll manage MY own data. I'll share it with who I want. And it's a fun project. :)
I clicked the link and... have no idea what this is. It looks like instagram maybe? I can't even figure out how to figure out what it is. The only clickable thing I see is "@admin" which just takes me to what looks like an Instagram page. It doesn't even mention fediverse on that page, and even if it did, you'd have to know what the fediverse is. This feels like a huge barrier to adoption for them beyond the nerdiest…
It is an instagram knockoff. I think they are avoiding the fediverse mention on purpose in order to get users by just marketing it as an alternative without any special magic. This about page as a landing page is really confusing but the homepage doesn't do much better... Also registration is closed so this is a really strange time to be advertising