TIL Pixelfed exists. It's a pretty small network though, they say they have 163K users. They need some stupid Instagram policy change to get more traction.
No. Pixelfed is part of the Fediverse. You can follow anyone and be followed from Mastodon, Pleroma. This means that we have already almost 10M users to interact with. [0]
Stop thinking in terms of silos and start embracing the re-emergence of the World Wide Web.
One of the cool benefits of federation. I've already seen a bunch of Lemmy/kbin instances instantly have a bustling, unique community because people could post to and follow communities from Mastodon.
Agreed. As a developer it's also a lot of fun because i can toy with creating my own platform and depending on the compatibility i choose to opt into -- ie Mastodon/Lemmy/Kbin -- i get interop and i don't create a silo. I absolutely love that.
I suspect there's tons of issues with ActivityPub, ranging from inefficiency of synchronization to discovery of instances, but those are things we can evolve for ActivityPub.
But i absolutely adore that creating a new platform with unique features can still be compatible with the larger ecosystem. It's like creating a new Reddit client (Apollo/etc) but it can have new features like shared economy or integration to PixelFeed/Mastodon/etc.
Despite not loving some things i'm about inefficiencies ActivityPub, i adore what it's giving us. I hope we run with it.
> I don't want the very nasty users of that 10M to interact with me or my friends.
> This is just opening everyone to harassment we didn't ask for.
I fail to see how this is much different from existing social media, where there are also any of millions of users who could harass you or your friends.
With all due respect, I'm going to nitpick a portion of your comment there... While the 163k users might accurately describe pixelfed...that is, pixelfed users, that doesn't even begin to describe "the network"... which is composed of millions of fediverse users. Your comment was like saying that email is not that big of a network because there are only X numbers of thunderbird users. Again, all due respect. But pixelfed is only one of many ways to be present on, and interact with millions of people on the fediverse. ;-)
And if that goes too deep too soon, then the home page of the same site can help provide a brief primer. Of course with the fediverse gaining recent attention (due to mastodon and pixelfed), there are plenty of other guides out there as well. Good luck!
