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Pixelfed: "groups" are coming and they will be compatible with Lemmy (who knows if they will also be compatible with Friendica)

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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 πŸš€

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[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 3 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

It would be nice if they did it the same way piefed works. GL to the team!

[–] pzzzt@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago

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. πŸ˜…

[–] Bunbury@feddit.nl 15 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

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!

[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 4 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

My understanding is that these groups are separate from the normal Pixelfed feed.

[–] Bunbury@feddit.nl 5 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] JustAnotherKay@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] Bunbury@feddit.nl 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] JustAnotherKay@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

BROLIGARCHY

Brother that is the funniest fucking portmanteau I've seen in ages. Thank you for this lmao

[–] Bunbury@feddit.nl 2 points 1 hour ago

Wish I could take credit. I’ve seen it around and it just fits perfectly when it comes to all those tech bro’s and the way they are acting in relation to politics and power. It’s now just part of my vocabulary.

[–] oce@jlai.lu 44 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

Compatible means Pixelfed group = Lemmy community?

[–] asudox@lemmy.asudox.dev 22 points 22 hours ago

yeah pretty much

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 46 points 22 hours ago (4 children)

Can't wait for the culture clash between Lemmy and Pixelfed πŸ˜…

[–] muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee 38 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

The more variety the better we are as a social network.

[–] piratepost@poliverso.org 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

@muntedcrocodile @Blaze There will be no culture clash: Lemmy communities are already compatible with Pixelfed accounts

Does modding work across PF - Lemmy?

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 30 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee 3 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

For an end user iphones arnt that bad tbh just expensive. Says me running the superior GrapheneOS tho.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 14 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

"not that bad" β€” a very comfortable and well-decorated prison. But you can't blame pixelfed for every poor choice its users might make in their lives.

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 6 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee 4 points 19 hours ago

Ahh I'd never get one for myself. But for the people who don't care about freedom, ownership, and money its great.

[–] clockworkrat@slrpnk.net 18 points 20 hours ago

I'm on both; really enjoying the art sharing community vibe of PixelFed rather than the constant influencer attention seeking shower of IG.

[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

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.

[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 24 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 9 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, agreed. More content in these fields will help attract and retain more casual users on Lemmy.

[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

oh never seen feddit.nu instance before? What region is it for?

[–] guy@piefed.social 1 points 11 hours ago
[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 8 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 1 points 10 hours ago

There's a lot of the same people on both. Like me!

[–] oce@jlai.lu 1 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

Because its root is ~Marxist techies, I think it takes many newbies by surprise and is not super enjoyable for the average user.

[–] Corgana@startrek.website 3 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Healthy for Lemmy, totally catastrophic for Pixelfed.

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 2 points 20 hours ago (1 children)
[–] oce@jlai.lu 1 points 11 hours ago

Lemmy could pop their bubble of peace with politics and confrontation.

[–] freamon@preferred.social 12 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

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

[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 27 points 22 hours ago

Waiting for frendica compatibility so we can talk to !nicole@feddit.org

[–] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 17 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Awesome. This is what I thought Friendica was capable of, but looking forward to see it on Pixelfed.

[–] piratepost@poliverso.org 2 points 9 hours ago

@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

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 5 points 20 hours ago

Excited to see Lemmy inundated with random "pic for attention" posts.