Seems to be working fine for me

It wouldn’t surprise me at all. Pixelfed got mainstream notice, and there’s always someone willing to give you money. Pretty much every popular Firefox/Chrome addon developer gets emails about buying it, but those are usually just shady companies looking to push malware onto the existing install base.

Even apart from those, it wouldn’t really surprise me to see some VC interest when Pixelfed hit #1 on the play store. They love the idea of glomming onto something that looks like a rocket and trying to ride it to the moon

Looks like skeleton code to me? I don’t see how that could be what the site/app are running on

It does technically federate a little, @dansup@loops.video exists. Not real federation, but I enjoy being technically correct 🤓 I do wish dansup open sourced it already so people could get a better picture of what’s going on with it, but he did say he’s actively working on federation this weekend.

It does allow third party apps like Loopy, where are you seeing that it doesn’t?

These are two similar sites:

https://fedidb.org/

https://fediverse.observer/stats

Some thoughts from this Loops user on why the Fediverse matters. I’ve seen some people push back on the idea of “It’s like email, but for X”, but that way of explaining it really makes sense to me.

I agree with the thesis that centralization is bad. Centralization breeds concentration of power, and power corrupts, or something like that

Tags are coming soon, which I think would be equivalent:

https://lemmy.ml/post/24645977

In general, I think communities shouldn’t splinter until there’s a need. IMO both efforts should just use !fedigrow@lemm.ee, and title posts in a way that makes the distinction clear. They’re both about growing the Fediverse in the end. If and when it becomes too much to keep in the same comm, then you’d split it up. That’s just my opinion as an internet rando though 🤷

I’m not saying that leaving an instance unblocked means you’re in favor of them, to be clear. My response was only addressing the issue of achieving a “normie” experience.

Kind of a silly question, but asked honestly: How much do you think the name “communick” matters when trying to convince “normies” to try it out? Would they see that, read it as a play on “Communist”, and assume it’s only for extremists or whatever?

At a minimum, you’d want to find an instance that blocks lemmygrad.ml and hexbear.net. lemmy.world already blocks both of those though. The next instance you’d probably want to block is lemmy.ml, which not many other instances do. beehaw.org does, but also blocks lemmy.world, which cuts out a lot of the threadiverse.

If you felt like it, you could explain how to do instance blocking on your user profile. That might be too much for people that don’t really care either way and just want stuff to work, though.

@Blaze@feddit.org might also have opinions on this, having spent a lot of time over on Reddit convincing people to try out Lemmy

I have standing orders to invade the Hague if ever tried there

There’s a sudden influx of users from instagram and tiktok and whatnot because of the ban, zuckerberg fellating Trump, and all of that stuff going on. So the answer to “What’s getting posted?” is “everything”

Signal has a lot of overlap there. They’ve got disappearing messages and Stories

Source hasn’t been released, but the dev has said it will be and there’s no reason to doubt that IMO. Same dev as pixelfed which is open source and federated

Looks like it’s still a load thing:

https://mastodon.social/@mastodonmigration@mastodon.online/113840500857115930

Pretty impressive you’re running it on a pi, even with how nice the 5 is 👍

Are you running all of the services at grey.fail on the same pi?

How big of servers are you using? Is the load just from syncing with pixelfed.social?

Pinging @jgrim@discuss.online since you run social.photo as a sister site to discuss.online