Dansup’s post: https://tech.lgbt/@dansup@pixelfed.social/110997255323820201
What I’m seeing on desktop:
I’ve hardly managed to move my Instagram posts there and now they’re already rolling in the features I came there to escape.
Is PixelFed trying to offer a subjectively better experience to Instagram or just an open source and decentralised equivalent to it?
It would be nice to see options to turn off seeing this content but really what some of us consider bloat, others may love to use.
For now it’s focusing on being an equivalent. Although the option to repost peoples posts to the feed and not have them show up in your post section is extremely nice. Helps a lot with discovery without making your account a mess like mastodon does. Also soon it will have groups that will be compatible with Lemmy.
He’s mentioned turning them off will be possible really soon.
What is a story exactly? A collection of related posts?
heh, it’s a feature copied on various social platforms that allows you to post ephemeral video clips that go away after ~24 hours.
It was a meme a few years ago that every website and app would one day have a Stories feature.
Seems appropriate and good that Pixelfed would get the feature. It is quite a popular format.
Oh curious. I don’t understand the use-case or how it fits in with the concept of PixelFed so I think I won’t use it. I’d like to see PixelFed get more popular, but if most of the posts are disappearing after 24 hours then it’s kind of like nobody is even using it. 🤨
They’re generally useful in promoting temporary content such as festivals. In places such as Instagram they’re found their use in being used for casual posts that aren’t of the quality of the users more cultivated actual posts. For example promoting a friend’s page or casual holiday pictures. Particularly if the account has a brand such as hand made goods, it’s a place for the owner to post personal content too.
I don’t actually know what PixelFed is really but I currently only use web content where I don’t really follow people as much as ideas and content, I couldn’t name a single lemmy or Reddit user, I only follow hashtags on Masterdon and I don’t really have much loyalty to who I watch on YouTube, so this content doesn’t appeal to me because I don’t often care about their stories. If PixelFed is a content site where you do follow personal content, then it’s probably right for them.
It’s mostly for things that don’t warrant a post but your friends might still think are interesting. I’m big on live music so it makes it easy for me to see a snippets of shows people go to or even to figure out if friends happen to be at the same show, but that’s just my personal example.
Its from snapchat, it was once a unique feature of them to encourage people to make more authentic, spontanious posts. Because they are deleted after a certain time, people (at least in theory) don’t think too much about making them.
