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No stupid questions require a question. Showerthoughts doesn’t

Yes

You got flavors which is a set of features pre-selected features. One of them offer microblogging but you can completely disable it or choose another flavor. You can build with bonfire any type of platform like an peer tube and pixeled alternative or even novel applications like a platform for collaborative peer review in science

I think it is a big mistake to have an clone to mastodon as a demo. Instead of promoting the unique capabilities

What did you not understand? The idea is to have modular features easy to disable and enable.

So it is all over the place it’s so chaotic and confusing for people

Then he just have to use mastodon which support fetching all posts from pixelfed. People are joining the fediverse for different reasons some for privacy, some for less censorship etc. This guy want to force text content on everybody which is rediculous.

I don’t want to see text only if I want to see images. I don’t want to see mastodon posts on lemmy with ton of hashtags when lemmy do not support them.

There is another better solution which is instead of forcing all type of content on people you can have a client that support all the main fediverse platform

Pixelfed grew to begin with because instagram was forced videos on people and now the authornwant to force text on people

What would be really confusing is two friends being on different instance then the two instances defederate

Pixelfed never claimed to want to sell or promote salads , it’s a business choice you may say. There’s billions people in the word with different interests you can’t simply please anybody. Mastodon is already able to fetch from pixeled so why would you want everything to be mastodon? Do you have the same complains about peertube not fetching text only content too or instance defederating from each other without notices so basically hiding content from thousands of peoples?

A technology platform is the foundation for building and running business applications. The platform allows users to run their applications smoothly without worrying about the technology that supports them. At the same time, it allows technical staff to rapidly extend, enhance, or upgrade application software, increasing the speed of business.

https://www.sap.com/canada/products/technology-platform/what-is-a-technology-platform.html

Pixelfed is definitely a platform . You only heard the term in context of centralized big social media so you think the term has bad connotation

Well, Mastodon will show everything in the feed, no matter if it’s a video, a short blog, a** long blog**, a picture, a podcast, whatever.

Doesn’t the long blog simply got truncated to 500 characters and link you to the original content? Which is very not user friendly

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We don’t need all fediverse platforms to be a Mastodon clone, we can instead have certain fediverse clients that have a global feed for displaying from all the fediverse and specific feeds for each type of content (videos, texts, images).

Which number to trust?

But pixelfed is only selling pizza and the cudtomer complains that he didn’t find a salad option

If that guy was right there wouldn’t be defederation and many defederation are not announced

No it doesn’t. Just like someone don’t expect to see images on tiktok or long form text on x. Nobody would expect to see text only posts on Pixelfed

Expecting an photo centric app to display text only post is really ridculous. What’s thr point of making pixelfed just another mastodon type app. With the same logic , why not complaining about mastodon only allowing micro blogging short text?

Autotune makes a good singer bad

No matter how good your singing is. Autotune makes your music completely trash

I am not used to autotune