 Just a note saying how my #Fediverse experience has been made immeasurably richer for being able to take in and engage with carefully curated #Threads users, #BlueSky bridged users, #WordPress ActivityPub enabled blogs, Federated #Podcast episodes, #PixelFed photos, and Peertube videos. All from one Mastodon account. This works. And I'm grateful for the moderation tools to mute, block and curate all of this, and the Mastodon lists to make them all digestable and not just info overload. @dansup Could you be so kind to offer an .apk to the Pixelfed app? I don't want to use Google Play Store   Why does safari hate mastodon advanced mode??? I just accidentally boosted something when I meant to favourite it, I know its not mastodons problem because this never happens on chrome like, idk what the safari team did recently, but you can def notice how it breaks sites when you keep the tabs open, steve jobs is rolling in his grave!!
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   I'm learning swift to implement on-device translations, hashtag and alt-text suggestions! don't worry, kotlin is next 😎 When it comes to adding features like these, I draw the line at on device processing when possible. Privacy is fundamental, and I'm only willing to implement features like this if they can be implemented using native apis, we will never use ChatGPT or 3rd party APIs period.  This song is stuck in my head, on repeat all night 🔥 Whitney Houston - It's Not Right But It's Okay
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Infinite scroll is a blessing and a curse, combined with algorithms, they can become quite addictive. That is the whole point of developing a project right, for people to actually use it, and the most possible? I know, there are detriments to encouraging excessive use, but we shouldn't ignore the fact that algorithms and infinite scroll are here to stay. The question with @loops is, how we can encourage the most healthy use?
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@dansup Really looking forward to it. I haven't used it consistently because I wasn't satisfied with the third-party apps and TestFlight was buggy for me. I definitely want to be shifting away from Instagram, though  I will make a separate Pixelfed Groups app, considering it's significantly different than our core photo/video sharing feature Pixelfed Groups have their own notifications, main feed and data structures A separate app would benefit in many ways, including easier group administration, simpler UI and support for non-core features like markdown, link preview cards and more! Once I finalize the API this weekend, any other MastoAPI compatible server will be able to use the groups app too! Loops and Sup were created out of my frustration with the state of the pixelfed app. Things have changed, the new app is not only better, but ready for these features, but now I'm wondering if I should keep them separate 🤔
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@dansup we've seen that both approaches can work, depending on the developer. Shortform video exists in 3 locations off the top of my head with differing reception. I think of TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube Shorts. I think it matters if the dev can execute on an all-in-one platform well or if they would do better to keep them separated @dansup I'm late to reply but I prefer the videos and photos apps to be separate. It can feel very unprofessional very quickly to have a bunch of nonsense internet videos mixed in with photography. Instagram feels like a junkyard of memes and nonsense at this point and it's nice that PixelFed isn't like that. Bogging down an app with too many things at once makes Instagram awful to use. I think this is why TikTok works better too. That's my 2 cents.
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@dansup IMO the font size is slighly too small or there‘s too much space between the menu items. Nice work 👍
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@tchambers Many times a #Bluesky user seems to be replying to or reposting something I can’t see. I assume it’s because the poster is not bridged. Disheartening. Does not seem to be as bad with #Theads.
@tchambers That sounds really exciting. So far I have stuck to the Twitter/Reddit way of using this medium but we'll see what the future will bring