• FlashMobOfOne
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    181 month ago

    I"ve been on Pixelfed for three days and, sadly, it’s pretty underwhelming.

    I’m going to give it a few weeks though and build up a feed.

    • @ChapulinColorado
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      461 month ago

      Lemmy was pretty sparse on posts not that long ago. Time can help.

      • @UnderpantsWeevil
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        81 month ago

        Old enough to remember when you could get to the “end of Twitter”, because you’d swiped through all the active posts of the day.

        • @[email protected]
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          81 month ago

          You might be spending too much time on Lemmy if you’re still finding it lacking in content. Unless you’re referring to the amount of content in niche communities, in which case I’d agree.

            • Bilb!
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              11 month ago

              People are in denial downvoting you. The useful stuff is still mostly on Reddit. I’m committed to the decentralized option but there’s no use pretending.

    • murph
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      221 month ago

      Remember, there is no algorithm pushing people towards you, look around, follow people, and see who they follow.

      • @MisterFrog
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        11 month ago

        My problem with decentralised social Media currently is that it’s entirely unencrypted and publically viewable.

        I don’t mind so much on services like Lemmy where it’s a bit of fun to make comments and post random things without it being directly linked to your identity (though I am aware the content is still likely being scraped by someone somewhere).

        I’d really love a Facebook/Instagram replacement, but end-to-end encrypted where only the people you’ve given permission to can view your content.

        No idea how this would be achieved, but PixelFed is pretty useless unless you’re posting publically.

          • @MisterFrog
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            21 month ago

            Nooooooo! That sounded perfect. The app is still up but it’s entirely missing from their website :(

            Thanks for sharing

        • Bilb!
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          1 month ago

          I think that’s closer to what Diaspora hoped to achieve, but maybe I’m misremembering some details.

          • @MisterFrog
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            11 month ago

            Close, but it appears admins of instances have access to your info, sadly :/

        • Captain Aggravated
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          11 month ago

          Okay, so if you’re doing something like a craft business and putting your portfolio out, Pixelfed can do that. Probably don’t do personal shit.

        • @[email protected]
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          11 month ago

          There is Diaspora, it is like a federated Facebook with a bit more privacy settings. All crickets now that everyone moved on to Mastodon.

          There’s encrypted p2p stuff with nice apps like Scuttlebutt with Manyverse app, but nobody uses it.

          There’s Movim which builds a social network layer over XMPP, so you can share to your contacts. Guess what - nobody uses it.

          • @MisterFrog
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            11 month ago

            Unfortunately none of these are end-to-end encrypted (I believe). Thanks though!

    • murph
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      121 month ago

      Follow hashtags for things you’re interested in too.

    • ZeroOne
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      41 month ago

      Try MetaPixl