Comment on Is Pixelfed sawing off the branch that the Fediverse is sitting on?
lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 5 days agoNo, you as a poster in the Fediverse are selling pizzas and salads. PixelFed is “misrepresenting” you, for lack of a better word, by telling people you only sell pizzas. The thing is, it wasn’t doing that before. It was purposefully made to hide useful information that was there before. IMO there should be a sticky “this user has other content which is not images” headbar or something. Only removable as an opt-in per account followed, so that it is not possible for people to say that PF purposefully hid information.
Sibshops@lemmy.myserv.one 5 days ago
Oh, so the poster is upset that the person who is running a pizza-only app isn’t also getting their salad offers.
lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 4 days ago
Exactly! And that’s why the choice in the UI is important. My understanding is previous versions of PF at least let your viewers know you offer salads. There’s no (good) reason why the very minimum useful version of that can’t be maintained. Comaps and OSMand for example are map applications, but they let me know when a given location has an associated Wikipedia article for example. They don’t even need to implement something like a Wikipedia Viewer itself; just offer the links. Links are cheap, and are the foundation and backbone of both the internet and of any useful concept of a “fediverse”.