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Meta Is Blocking Links to Decentralized Instagram Competitor Pixelfed (www.404media.co)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago (19 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago (8 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (7 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That's what the FUTO Circles project was supposed to be about, but sadly the project got ditched by the original devs for it only a year after it started. Info on that here - https://youtu.be/OKTOhxeKrK0

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

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

Thanks for sharing

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