I don't personally use it but pixelfed is an Instagram type of site. It's part of the fediverse as well.
this post was submitted on 12 Jul 2023
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Can I use this login for that site or do I need a new account?
You'd need to create another account, pixelfed is currently working on a "login with mastodon" feature that will probably be released pretty soon, but even with that you're still technically creating another account, you'll just be able to log into it using a mastodon account and copy your bio, profile pic, follows, and things like that if you want.
But yeah, there's nothing for lemmy
They are working on mastodon integration
Always a new account with Federation
They are working on mastodon integration
i even found out the other day that pixelfed does stories and live streaming!
though those things are based on reading the configuration settings in documentation, so i have no idea what those features are like….
also worth noting that as usually with fediverse platforms, pixelfed data is accessible from other platforms like mastodon
ie you can retoot a pixelfed post afaik, and i believe that at least in kbin that means you can have a threaded conversion about a pixelfed post?
Lemmy fulfills a sort of reddit/more intimate internet forum thing. Reddit's real social good was fixing shitty search engine results by using Reddit as a keyword, and for centralizing a lot of hobbyist discussion. Lemmy and the lemmylikes will get there as the platform matures.
I'm loving pixelfed as a sort of Imgur substitute tbh. Quick and easy image hosting for when I post on here. Not crazy about Instagram as a social media platform so there's nothing I need pixelfed to do besides let me host medium-sized images, caption them and copy the link.
For imgur check out Catbox. I haven't used it person, but it might be closer to imgur than pixelfed which is supposed to be an IG replacement.
I feel that currently Lemmy may be less web searcheable compared to Reddit, since the domain names aren't consistent. I mean not every instance's domain's are named with lemmy. sopuli.xyz, programming.dev, technics, reddthat etc. I haven't tested it tho.
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Check out Pixelfed for an Instagram replacement. Seems to fill the same sort of use case
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I only used reddit as my big social media and then discord for messaging. Fediverse has become a good alternative to reddit, but discord will be hard to convince people to move over to alternatives like matrix or revolt.
I was only ever really into Reddit, which Lemmy has handily replaced.
- I technically have an Instagram, but I scrubbed it and removed the app to stop me from doomscrolling and giving Meta ad revenue.
- Microblogging like Twitter or Tumblr never really appealed to me.
- I was born after 2000, so Facebook doesn't exist in my world.
I do use Discord, but mainly because all my friends and family are on there. I would love if a federated alternative like Matrix became the standard. Hopefully the EU's Digital Markets Act will help - if I understand it correctly, Discord and other platforms will be forced to allow seamless bridges (which currently will get you banned) under interoperability requirements.
Lemmy is a given, since I'm fairly active here.
I've been using Mastodon even if I was never a Twitter user. (Or at least, not a serious user. I had an account some time ago, as I was dating a girl who posted there often and she insisted that I should use it.)
I've been trying to convince people to migrate from Whatsapp to Signal. Easier said than done due to network effect.
I only ever used Reddit. Now I'm here.
Unless you count Steam Friends and actual text messages sent via SMS as social media.
ew sms please use signal
Not the one you replied to but, I would if I could. I have like 3 friends on signal. Can't get anyone to move.
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I host my own private "Facebook" for my large family. The web app is called HumHub and it's free to use (though some premium add-ons are paid).
@jackpot@lemmy.ml @asklemmy@lemmy.ml Replacement for Instagram is @pixelfed@mastodon.social 👍
Trying to replace reddit on PC but this place still isn't great for gaming and wrestling and niche games i'm currently into. I do enjoy it on my phone though, also tagged back in Somethingawful on my phone also for some nice reading of some classic threads and PYF stuff.
Other than that, no need to replace anything otherwise :)
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Why are people trying to replace Discord? Just for the sake of federation or..?
Discord has been rolling out terrible features lately instead of improving the already existing ones. Messages still aren't E2EE and third-party clients are against TOS.
Discord has some shady shit in its privacy policy, and one of their largest investors is Tencent. Discord is one of my top targets for replacement, but none of my friends are all that interested in trying Matrix
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For me its because of privacy.
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YouTube - Peertube
Discord - Matrix? Don’t know a lot about Matrix. It integrates with Discord and a bunch of other stuff
I've looked at Matrix and it's exactly like Discord except it uses encryption on everything.
It also is filled with super shady rooms. You can very easily run into CP if you're not careful.
Being careful of CP is a danger you take in most sites, especially the ones that don’t have a lot of users. I’ve stumbled on jailbait instances here.. it’s fucking everywhere.
I've been on curated internet too long. Randomly stumbling into CP wasn't something I expected to see outside of the dark web since the main Internet got so tame during the late 2000's through the 2010's.
The main internet didn’t get tame, they just got better at hiding it. But that’s the point. There’s more cp on the clear web than dark web because the clear web is much much larger than the dark web, and the dark web is more heavily tracked with a large FBI presence.
Reddit had and still has issues with CP, weird threads with numbers and hash codes? Very likely some kind of downloading ring. There’s still “sink” threads on places like 4chan where a user posts an innocuous image, but upon closer inspection a single image file is way larger than it should be, meaning they injected the file with more files, by exploiting the metadata to turn an image file into essentially a zip folder. Isis used to use that method to recruit new members on twitter, out in the open they’d post a picture of some isis soldiers and if you extracted the files within the image you got recruitment docs and instructions on how to leave your country and fight with isis.
I'm waiting for the Discord <-> Matrix bridges to get better. Mautrix for instance lets you control your Discord presence straight from Matrix: https://github.com/mautrix/discord/blob/main/ROADMAP.md
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I didn't really do Twitter but was big into Instagram for a while until the whole thing started with them pushing reels, so honestly Mastodon is more of a replacement for IG in my particular case. I can upload images, so there's no real need to keep a separate Pixelfed. Pixelfed users who just want to see images can in fact follow people on Mastodon, and just get their images. I can also follow people on Pixelfed and see them in my Mastodon feed. So that covers all the bases really.
Still use Discord plenty, never really had a problem with it although I do use it for its intended purpose rather than trying to turn it into a forum which is where a lot of servers seem to go wrong.
Don't use FB, although I understand Friendica is the main replacement software for that.
Been considering looking into PeerTube but it seems best for very short videos just due to file storage. Mine tend to be more around the 15-20 minute mark on average so not sure that would work.
Discord -> Element(matrix) is my go to
Lemmy obvs.
Then NewPipe/freetube for YouTube. In saying this, though, I do acces YT directly if I need to post a comment or something, very occasionally. Not sure if the replacement counts as social media since they are just scrappers, you don't really interact with others.
I use Signal for family. Couldn't get friends to jump over. Nobody cares. Everybody loves Whatsucks.
Casual discord user, been looking at options but haven't made up my mind yet. Probably not worth the hassle considering how little I use it
Reddit - Lemmy Discord/Signal/WhatsApp - Matrix Twitter - Mastodon Instagram - Pixelfed
Unless the communities you visit move, it’d be very difficult to move entirely.
This applies to discord especially.
They’re more of a compliment to the other social networks in many cases
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Lemmy = reddit Newpipe = YouTube Mastodon = news/twitter
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