Is it only for photography nerds at the moment or everyone ?

EDIT :Just want to get my friends to try anything ftom the frediverse and i think pixelfed is the only platform that ordinary people will want to use in the frediverse i aslo want to try it but atm they are not taking temp mails and every instance seems to need a real one which i am not comfortable sharing .

EDIT : Also is there any way i can browse it for some time without making an acc ?

  • @willya@lemmyf.uk
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    It’s like the early stages of IG. What are you wanting to use it for? There’s definitely no algorithmic reels feed filling you with everything you crave.

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      Just want to get my friends to try anything ftom the frediverse and i think pixelfed is the only platform that ordinary people will want to use in tge frediverse.Also i don’t know how instagrams early days look like i only used it for a week past year.

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        Most people are using the big guys due to being addicted to the constant feed of everything they like. There’s nothing like that. You’d have to convince them they have a problem and ween them off lol

        • @rockSlayer@lemmy.world
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          Voluntarily joining the fediverse after quitting reddit is how I recognized I was spending too much time on social media

          • @cmeu@lemmy.world
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            I’ve had almost no luck convincing people to try something else… hard to overcome the momentum and the “but everyone I know is on that one”

            • STONED AFOP
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              True but what they really are tgere for is dopamine

    • @RamSwamson@lemmy.sdf.org
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      It’s like the early stages of IG

      There’s definitely no algorithmic reels

      Sold and sold. Call me old fashioned but pre-fb-owned ig was the tits.

  • Atelopus-zeteki
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    It’s not a corporate shithole, and one can post pix, and comment. So I kinda like it.

  • Zagorath
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    Also is there any way i can browse it for some time without making an acc ?

    Oh gods this is the worst fucking thing about Instagram. As someone who never had an account there (in my case, less because of the privacy concerns and more just because I value photography more as an art form than the types of things Instagram encouraged, especially in its early days with the square-only limitation and heavy emphasis on filters), whenever I get sent a link to it, it’s just the worst. It manages to somehow be even worse than TikTok is for un-signed-in users.

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      It manages to somehow be even worse than TikTok is for un-signed-in users.

      Ikr? It’s so fucking stupid–both Twitter and IG are worse than TikTok in case of this.

      Let’s say you open a random Instagram link. Or a tweet link. You never know whether you will be able to see the link or not, it’s just a random chance in my.experience. If not–I swear this is the stupidest part of this–theyll straight up just show you an ambiguous error message, like “An error happened”. If you really want to push new users to create an account, AT THE VERY LEAST SHOW A ACCOUNT SIGN UP PAGE DAMN IT!!!. God damn, software are getting worse every day, and this comes from a programmer. Software tooling are better than ever, but these companies will continue enshittify their product! Damn.

  • T Jedi
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    It is for everyone. I’m not a photography nerd and have an account that I post sporadically.

    If you want to browse any instance, you can go to that instance home page and click “explore”. Example: https://pixelfed.social/web/explore

    Hope you accomplish your mission to bring your friends to FediVerse. It is a little sad that the communication with Lemmy is not good at the moment.

  • @3migo@lemmy.world
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    Maybe I haven’t spent enough time searching out accounts to follow, but I’ve found Pixelfed to be a bit lacking compared to Lemmy.

    Lemmy successfully replaced Reddit for me. But Pixelfed is just too barren for me to be able to ditch Instagram.

  • Kernal64
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    33 months ago

    Who’s Fred and how can I learn more about their verse?

    • cum
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      Check out Fred on YouTube, I think you’ll learn pretty quickly you don’t want to go down that verse

  • @Roldyclark@literature.cafe
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    Problem for me is no good iOS client. And you can follow pixelfed accounts on mastodon and post photos there, so no real need for me.