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Pixelfed has always been and will always be a platform that centers photos and creative artwork first and foremost.

It is deliberately not a microblogging platform, there are plenty of other microblogging platforms.

The criticism? I hear it. But we're not backing down from our vision.

Photo sharing first, foremost and forever.

#Pixelfed #PhotographyFocused

in reply to dansup

Yeah, but keep in mind that first is not only ;)

I’m confident you’ll do a good job in including text message to Pixelfed.

in reply to dansup

Why not just ask every time someone follows a non-photo first federated accout: "Do you want to see only photo posts or all posts?"
in reply to dansup

Understandably, but isn't posed as an alternative for things like Instagram?
in reply to dansup

Who on earth is wanting Pixelfed to be a blogging site? Like you said, there are plenty of those out there. Keep doing what you're doing, it's fantastic so far!
in reply to dansup

I like the way #Pixelfed is. And I don't share the criticism. Mastodon doesn't show my full articles from WordPress. Nobody complains about that. In the contrary: people on Mastodon say, that Mastodon is a short message service and it shouldn't display long form texts.
Please stay true to your vision and don't get distracted. I like an app with an attitude more than an app that serves a standard for its own sake.
in reply to dansup

what I don't get, something I have seen time and time again, is people criticizing @dansup.
in reply to Travis Marble

it's a lot easier to criticize than to build something worthwhile, that people actually use.

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in reply to dansup

Unfortunately that's true, don't let it get to you. I'm pretty impressed at what you have been able to do.
in reply to dansup

makes complete sense. We've seen from Google that doing everything will lead to the death of platforms.

Doing one thing and one thing only perfectly with pure focus is the way imo

in reply to dansup

But does this not harm the vision of the ActivityPub protocol? Why not make the madate on showing posts containing pictures opt-out? That would basically be an end to the entire problem.
in reply to dansup

: I’ve heard all the replies to my blog post. I start to understand better where our vision differ. For me, the Fediverse was about interoperability of people. To many other, the Fediverse is about enjoying some kind of media.

The fact that you, Pixelfed creator, post this from a Mastodon account is the saddest thing about the state of the Fediverse to me. But seems normal for lot of people who grew with lot of accounts everywhere.

I don’t like it but I hear the rationale behind it.

in reply to dansup

I don't "feel" like this app has really taken off at all, but I personally don't want or need an instagram-like app, no thank you.

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in reply to dansup

But what do you say to this problems?
github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed/i…

If someone tags you, with picture or not, you must be able to see it.
That's a Fediverse promise.
This should not be dropped. Ever.
Or what do you think about it?

in reply to dansup

the only question I have remotely related to this discussion about interoperability is do you know if videos posted on Pixelfed will show up for loopers who follow you? I already can view videos on Pixelfed from loopers I follow.
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in reply to dansup

that person’s criticism is going a bit too far imo. The protocol does not require every app to support every kind of content. I do wish there was a different object type used for photo-specific posts with a caption vs notes that happen to have media attachments. That would make it more obvious they are different types of content for all apps trying to display them.
in reply to julian

@julian I haven’t actually seen too much of how it handles non-note objects these days - I think articles are the only ones I’ve actually noticed. Can you point me at a good example?
in reply to dansup

I actually use Pixelfed as the platform to upload my Game Boy Camera photos.

However, I still have to rely on more commercial platforms to reach a wider audience. But Pixelfed is always my priority.