Seeing some talk about #PixelFed. I made an account on there a while ago. Here's me: https://pixelfed.social/i/web/profile/3909
It's part of the fediverse and using ActivityPub, so... what does that mean? Maybe I didn't need to make a new account. I could've used this mastodon one? Can I follow myself from mastodon on there? or what? I'm confused, and I'm not the only one: https://www.reddit.com/r/Mastodon/comments/14ri8ao/mastodon_and_pixelfed_one_account_or_two/
It's part of the fediverse and using ActivityPub, so... what does that mean? Maybe I didn't need to make a new account. I could've used this mastodon one? Can I follow myself from mastodon on there? or what? I'm confused, and I'm not the only one: https://www.reddit.com/r/Mastodon/comments/14ri8ao/mastodon_and_pixelfed_one_account_or_two/
Volodymyr •
Most differnce - is what your account server can do and can show to you, but while both is ActivityPub implementors, they can transfer data (posts, subscriptions etc) between each other. That makes them a part of Fediverse
Fedi.Tips •
People on Pixelfed can follow Mastodon accounts and can see any Mastodon post which has an image or video clip attached.
Advantage of Pixelfed is that it has image-oriented features, if image posting is your thing then Pixelfed accounts are good.
But if you are mostly about general social media posts, Mastodon is a much better option.
Major downside of Pixelfed is lack of support for text-only posts.
I've tried to summarise it here:
https://fedi.tips/pixelfed-photo-sharing-on-the-fediverse/
Pixelfed: Photo sharing on the Fediverse | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse
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