Sunshine (she/her) to [email protected]English • 4 months agoDecentralized Instagram alternative Pixelfed launches mobile appstechcrunch.comexternal-linkmessage-square130fedilinkarrow-up1988arrow-down14
arrow-up1984arrow-down1external-linkDecentralized Instagram alternative Pixelfed launches mobile appstechcrunch.comSunshine (she/her) to [email protected]English • 4 months agomessage-square130fedilink
minus-squareBlaze (he/him)linkfedilinkEnglish36•4 months agoInstagram replacement rather than Imgur For that there is https://catbox.moe/ and https://imgbb.com/
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•4 months agoPixelfed can be used as image hoster likewise, those 2 you mention are proprietary, so if one cared about that, they might prefer Pixelfed
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish14•4 months agoIt acts as a Instagram replacement (but is actually about photos and not videos)
minus-squareAtelopus-zetekilinkfedilink12•4 months agoloops.video is aiming for the video segment. Tho’ it seems like one app for pix and vids would be nifty.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish6•4 months agoPixelfed does videos to, and I think federation with loops is planned
minus-squareAtelopus-zetekilinkfedilink2•4 months agoI 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/