Pixelfed: “groups” are coming and they will be compatible with Lemmy (who knows if they will also be compatible with Friendica)
Groups are not new to Pixelfed, we have webUI support but the feature wasn’t polished enough for use, until now ✨
:pixelfed: Groups will be compatible with #Lemmy, #Mbin, #Smithereen and other projects, and will resemble Facebook Groups in our official app!
Stay tuned, we’ll be shipping the updated Groups support in the app and webUI this weekend 🚀
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It would be nice if they did it the same way piefed works. GL to the team!
I finally got my pixelfed account approved and I forgot my password like a dummy. I’m worried that clicking ‘Forgot Password’ the first time I go to log in will flag me as untrustworthy somehow. 😅
This is absolutely perfect! The crowd I am following on Pixelfed is pretty much exactly what I am still partially missing on Lemmy. So excited about this. Thanks for sharing!
My understanding is that these groups are separate from the normal Pixelfed feed.
Sure, but I still suspect that we’ll get a large influx of crafters and other artists that will be visible in Lemmy directly. Still very much excited
I’ll really really appreciate this. I like having a few federated services to bounce between when I’m bored, but not a huge fan of actually using pixelfed since it’s more akin to social medias I never used. Having pixelfed content more easily accessible in Lemmy will make it a lot easier for me to interact with larger portion of the Fediverse
I love Pixelfed specifically because of the artsy, visual inspiration. I dearly miss browsing through my instragram feed and getting incredibly inspired by seeing people create amazing and beautiful things, including using techniques and crafts I had never even heard of before.
Pixelfed is starting to kind of be that for me, but Reddit did some of that too. Some of the most niche crafts even had their own subreddits. I just want to be able to be inspired by my social media feed again - ideally without algorithms aiming to get me stuck there. And without the broligarchy threatening to take it away at any moment.
Compatible means Pixelfed group = Lemmy community?
@oce Maybe yes
yeah pretty much
Can’t wait for the culture clash between Lemmy and Pixelfed 😅
The more variety the better we are as a social network.
@muntedcrocodile @Blaze There will be no culture clash: Lemmy communities are already compatible with Pixelfed accounts
Does modding work across PF - Lemmy?
Oh yeah, I’m just not sure how the two groups will interact. Wait until hardcore FOSS defenders learn that the majority of Pixelfed users have iPhones
For an end user iphones arnt that bad tbh just expensive. Says me running the superior GrapheneOS tho.
“not that bad” — a very comfortable and well-decorated prison. But you can’t blame pixelfed for every poor choice its users might make in their lives.
They’re user-hostile from the top down. They’ve gone to great lengths to ensure they’re not repairable. They’re responsible for basically all the anti-consumer hardware trends that eventually bleed across the entire industry. And you can only install apps that Apple has put their little rubber stamp on after paying $100/year for the privilege of publishing apps on their platform.
Ahh I’d never get one for myself. But for the people who don’t care about freedom, ownership, and money its great.
I’m on both; really enjoying the art sharing community vibe of PixelFed rather than the constant influencer attention seeking shower of IG.
From what I can tell, the culture on pixelfed is more chill, whimsical, artsy.
While lemmy is more technical, politicsy, confrontational etc?
I haven’t been much on PixelFed since the massive explosion in users though.
There’s a lot of the same people on both. Like me!
Because its root is ~Marxist techies, I think it takes many newbies by surprise and is not super enjoyable for the average user.
I think pixelfed communities would be a big boon to non-computer science/engineering type hobby communities. Which is a place in which lemmy majorly lacks. So good news imo.
Yeah, agreed. More content in these fields will help attract and retain more casual users on Lemmy.
oh never seen feddit.nu instance before? What region is it for?
Sweden
It’s… complicated. It was originally issued for the Polynesian island Niue, but it’s currently controlled by the Internet Foundation in Sweden. There are a lot of Swedish sites using it since “nu” means “now” in Swedish. Feddit.nu is the primary Swedish Lemmy instance since Feddit.se was registered but abandoned.
Interesting. Thanks for the background.
Healthy for Lemmy, totally catastrophic for Pixelfed.
How so?
Lemmy could pop their bubble of peace with politics and confrontation.
He’s mentioned this before, but I’ve never been able to find an actual PixelFed Group (it doesn’t appear to be the same thing as what they call Collections). I’ll have another look when pixelfed.social enables them this weekend (but I suspect parsing titles for the posts will be a nightmare).
Also, ‘smithereen’ is tagged but I’m not sure of its status (all I found was 1 private instance run by the dev, federated with 1 “explicitly-free-speech” Akkoma instance).
Same. Groups were merged a while ago but I’ve never seen them
Waiting for frendica compatibility so we can talk to !nicole@feddit.org
Awesome. This is what I thought Friendica was capable of, but looking forward to see it on Pixelfed.
@meldrik If Pixelfed groups are compatible with Lemmy and Mbin, then they will also be compatible with Friendica. And Friendica groups are already compatible with Lemmy and they are already compatible with Pixelfed accounts
Excited to see Lemmy inundated with random “pic for attention” posts.
