There is an increasing number of microservices that power various parts of the @pixelfed ecosystem, and it's pretty neat.

Our mobile app reaches out to a microservice api to get a list of pixelfed instances that are open and meet reqs, it's basically just a cached response of another microservice running on fedidb.

Another example is https://beagle.pixelfed.net, our new discovery and auth service, will be sharing more in a future blog post ✨