Sunshine (she/her)@lemmy.ca to Fediverse@lemmy.worldEnglish · 15 天前Decentralized Instagram alternative Pixelfed launches mobile appstechcrunch.comexternal-linkmessage-square133fedilinkarrow-up1981arrow-down14cross-posted to: fediverse_press@lemmy.worldfediverse@lemmy.zip
arrow-up1977arrow-down1external-linkDecentralized Instagram alternative Pixelfed launches mobile appstechcrunch.comSunshine (she/her)@lemmy.ca to Fediverse@lemmy.worldEnglish · 15 天前message-square133fedilinkcross-posted to: fediverse_press@lemmy.worldfediverse@lemmy.zip
minus-squareAvid Amoeba@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10arrow-down1·15 天前What’s the intended use case for Pixelfed?
minus-squareBlaze (he/him)@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up36·15 天前Instagram replacement rather than Imgur For that there is https://catbox.moe/ and https://imgbb.com/
minus-squareQuazarOmega@lemy.lollinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·15 天前Pixelfed can be used as image hoster likewise, those 2 you mention are proprietary, so if one cared about that, they might prefer Pixelfed
minus-squareRmDebArc_5@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·15 天前It acts as a Instagram replacement (but is actually about photos and not videos)
minus-squareAtelopus-zeteki@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up12·15 天前loops.video is aiming for the video segment. Tho’ it seems like one app for pix and vids would be nifty.
minus-squareRmDebArc_5@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·15 天前Pixelfed does videos to, and I think federation with loops is planned
minus-squareAtelopus-zeteki@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up2·15 天前I hadn’t tried vids! Ok, it could get a whole lot weirder, and/or more informative.
What’s the intended use case for Pixelfed?
Instagram replacement rather than Imgur
For that there is https://catbox.moe/ and https://imgbb.com/
Pixelfed can be used as image hoster likewise, those 2 you mention are proprietary, so if one cared about that, they might prefer Pixelfed
It acts as a Instagram replacement (but is actually about photos and not videos)
loops.video is aiming for the video segment. Tho’ it seems like one app for pix and vids would be nifty.
Pixelfed does videos to, and I think federation with loops is planned
I hadn’t tried vids! Ok, it could get a whole lot weirder, and/or more informative.
Whatever the usecase for Instagram is
https://pixelfed.org/