The Fediverse might be getting their own mashups of Tiktok, YouTube, and Vine sooner than anyone thought, thanks to the work of one prolific dev spearheading an effort. The best part? He's helping other projects in the space, too.

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[–] TheMonkeyLord@sopuli.xyz 10 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Pixelfed is really interesting, and this sounds like a fun project!

The only problem major problem I have encountered with trying to use defederated social medias, outside of Lemmy, like it and mastadon has been the lack of discover ability. I guess I don't know how to properly utilize the platforms, but I never find much that is particular to my interests

[–] small44@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

What's wrong with finding content using hashtags and keyword searches?

[–] yo_scottie_oh@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Right now hash tags on the largest pixelfed instance (pixelfed.social) are broken—clicking a hash tag in a photo’s caption takes the user to a missing page. Even on other instances where browsing by hash tag isn’t broken, they aren’t federated, so if you click #Amsterdam, you’ll only see other photos on the same (smaller) instance, and it’s not even obvious whether that’s working right because the post count will say one thing, but it’ll only show you like three or four photos.

Lots of potential, but it’s just not there yet.

[–] Omniraptor@lemm.ee 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Idk this has never been too difficult for me, I just piggyback other people's connections. Like literally find one person that seems cool, stalk their reposts/likes/follows for other people that seem cool and follow them too. repeat as necessary until you have a good feed built up.