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Is Pixelfed sawing off the branch that the Fediverse is sitting on? (ploum.net)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/fediverse@lemmy.world
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[–] 5 points 9 months ago (3 children)

I think OP has a valid point - it's not about experienced users, but newcomers to the fediverse, who may think they are following an account, when actually they only see a small part of it - there could be some indication of what's missing.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    No it doesn't. Just like someone don't expect to see images on tiktok or long form text on x. Nobody would expect to see text only posts on Pixelfed

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  • [–] 0 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    It's well known that each person has to have a different account for each of those big-tech services. Whereas in the fediverse, the original idea was that one account can traverse multiple services. The problem as the OP explains, is that it may seem you are following your friend's account, whereas actually you might see just a small fraction of it, and not be aware that there is more.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

    Then he just have to use mastodon which support fetching all posts from pixelfed. People are joining the fediverse for different reasons some for privacy, some for less censorship etc. This guy want to force text content on everybody which is rediculous.

    I don't want to see text only if I want to see images. I don't want to see mastodon posts on lemmy with ton of hashtags when lemmy do not support them.

    There is another better solution which is instead of forcing all type of content on people you can have a client that support all the main fediverse platform

    Pixelfed grew to begin with because instagram was forced videos on people and now the authornwant to force text on people

    What would be really confusing is two friends being on different instance then the two instances defederate

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