 I'm not trying to turn pixelfed into facebook, I want to make that clear. Adding optional features like groups and emoji-reactions (which are limited to group posts) are meant to compliment our existing community. I started building groups to help solve our discovery problem (https://mastodon.social/@dansup/106736542219278134) and provide a new way for users to create and grow communities around shared interests and topics without having to run their own instance. #pixelfed #groups 11 comments
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@niko @Gargron I experimented with text posts using css like FB does, the problem is that it can seemingly encourage low-effort text posts that depreciate the experience of carefully curated photos or videos. I think the only reason that FB did that was because users tend to pay more attention to photos, so they trick users with distracting backgrounds. I'd prefer not to go that route, even though to most people they look appealing. @dansup @Gargron (edit) For me adding group is a good idea to connect people with same passions. However, adding text-only posts is not a wise move. I agree with @Gargron as photo posts are Pixelfed's selling points. Even I hate mentioning Meta products, let me compare Facebook and Instagram. The youths nowadays are preferring Instagram over Facebook as shown in my screenshot.  Maybe I am in the minority, but I really don't think that is an issue for the server software. This idea of "one account for pixelfed to post photos, another on mastodon for text posts, another on write.as for longer blog posts, funkwhale to follow music channels" just leads to excessive fragmentation and balkanization. I'd rather have only one account with a server that can create all kinds of ActivityPub objects and let the *clients/frontends* make the filtering.  @dansup @Gargron dan i think i mentioned this a while back but how do you feel about the idea of keeping text posts out of the timeline and in their own separate feature? like itunes ping, basically -- photo posts are the main bread and butter, but artists can make text-based status updates that show up on their profile and/or appear in a separate timeline.  @dansup According to several fediverse crawlers, Pixelfed had approximately 6,500 active users over the past month on all instances combined. For contrast - r/Photography subreddit has 4.3 million users. I don't think there really is a need for smaller communities at this stage of Pixelfed's popularity, but that's just my opinion. I have been a user of Facebook and Flickr groups for many years and in both cases I sincerely hate them (the groups).  @dansup I really think improving location tagging would help. Let me tag neighborhoods, coffeeshops, trailheads where Iβm hiking, and then find other people who were at those places. Or even just make city tagging work better. I canβt tag San Francisco, California because the search shows 80 places in Latin America called San Francisco and then cuts off. |
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@dansup As someone who was recently explaining Pixelfed to someone, I think you should lean into photo-only posts more. It's your main selling point. Showing text-only posts takes that away.