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Pixelfed.social - Instagram free photo sharing alternative for everyone (pixelfed.social)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by Apolinaire@lemmy.world to c/free_free_free@lemmy.world
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Pixelfed is an open-source, community funded and decentralized image sharing platforms that runs on Activity Pub. Pixelfed.social is the largest Pixelfed server, which was launched in 2018 but has gained renewed attention over the last week.

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[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I'm on pixelfed.art, is there some difference concerning reach? Like will people randomly see my stuff or do I have to be on a big instance?

[–] scsi@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It somewhat mirrors Lemmy communities showing up - someone has to subscribe to your PF profile from another instance in order for your content to show up in that instance's "explore" type feed (e.g. browsing a hashtag like say #caturday). In essence your profile has to be "seeded" by someone on a remote instance in the Mastodon/Pixelfed environment.

So for example if you're at @valmond@pixelfed.art and I'm on, say, pixelfed.de or pixelfed.social, if nobody on .de or .social subscribes to your profile on .art then your content never reaches random humans on .de or .social until at least one person subscribes to you from there to trigger federation of your specific profile.

One hack is to create a second/third account on the popular server(s) and follow yourself on the less well-known server until you get natural organic followers on that remote platform so that your content shows up in that popular, remote instance explore feeds. shrug

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Thanks, it makes total sense now.

And nice hack :-)

[–] DigitalNirvana@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

Pretty sure the instances generally federate. I’ve been putting up pix. And bit by bit transferring my stuff from IG. It’s a nice community. Very supportive.