@dansup the more good platforms, the better!
Maybe someone wants to be on a mastodon instance for programming and a pixelfed instance for cats!

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I don't think RDBMS servers need to exist, use Microsoft Access

@dansup I don't believe I or anyone should dictate what different apps people come up with when using ActivityPub as foundation. If there will be interest, they will stay around and thrive. It is simple as that.

@dansup so let us log into Pixelfed with our Mastodon accounts. Let me view my existing ActivityPub feed with your photo oriented UI. Why make everyone create a new account? The ability to create third party clients is a *feature* of the Fediverse.

@dansup i don't think mastodon needs to exist

@dansup yeah. It's not like Instagram became popular despite twitter existing...

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WE don't need to exist either, but I'm glad we do.

@dansup mentions Peertube too... as if Mastodon offers the same features that Peertube offers ._.

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Couldn't agree more.

With the updates in the recent weeks, it's really a smooth and wonderful experience using #pixelfed.

@dansup I had the same troughs until I created my Pixelfed account.
Pixelfed is here for people who needs a place like Instagram and Mastodon is here for same thing but Twitter.

@dansup Most of my family members are not familiar with platforms like Twitter. They're never going to try Mastodon. Because they're on Facebook and IG. It serves them a different purpose.

Sorry for not responding to that reply. I forgot about it !

@dansup We don't need internet because we know how to write letters ...

#fediverse

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What's cool however is the fact that we can watch videos or read content from another platform on the platform we use. Just imagine getting your YouTube abonmements, the instagram images of your friends and the Facebook posts of your mum to your Twitter timeline! That would be so cool! In the fediverse, this is possible!

@dansup For me this speaks to the value of decoupling servers and clients. Which gives me an idea.

What if I could log into my non-pixelfed servers using the pixelfed app? I know the servers aren't fully pixelfed featured, but it'd be interesting to have the overlapping subset be accessible within pixelfed.

Actually, it'd be awesome to associate my accounts together in pixelfed to have a unified image feed and set a preference for which account to comment from.

This is now a feature request.

@dansup and don't forget #Pixelfed portfolios too. I suppose yes many only see posts and don't understand those other niche features aimed at photos and video specifically.

@dansup @cendawanita Who said that and, more importantly, were they summarily slapped?

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The whole point of the fediverse is that people can create a social platform that fit their need and federate it. Assuming some of these platforms didn't "need" to exist, still, their existence needs to be possible for the idea of the fedi to be operational. And how would we know for sure that they are able to exist unless they prove it by existing?

@dansup 😅 Yeah, #Mastodon also limits me to sharing 4 photos at a time. On my #Pixelfed instance I can share up to 10 photos (I can extend the amount but that would be overkill.

I like the idea of #Peertube, but bandwidth fees keep me from adopting it (#Vimeo & #Youtube are within my budget).

@dansup I disagree with the first statement in the photo and agree with the second. It would be nice if there were a way to de-couple one’s identity from a specific ActivityPub service, so we could use Mastodon, PixelFed, and PeerTube all with the same identity.

Suggesting that all other apps should be abandoned, of course, is not the answer.

@dansup As someone who used to scoff at Instagram because "twitter already has photos" (but has since come around), I would like to second this. There is a different experience when the primary orientation is visual rather than text.

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Wait.

But But. People have different use cases. Having different services optimized for different use cases and yet can interoperate a great and amazing thing.

@dansup lol, lmao even

@dansup none of this stuff needs to exist. But just like any artistic/itch to scratch endeavor, people do things for other reasons than a Maslowian "need"

@dansup wtf this is basically like saying "the fediverse doesn't need to exist" bc the uh whole point is that multiple systems can work together and experiment with different mediums without catastrophic social loss at every fork.

in addition to pixelfed being extremely different, freaking peertube is like a p2p webrtc app lol mastodon could never be used for distributing videos like that