Comment on Is Pixelfed sawing off the branch that the Fediverse is sitting on?

• Steve@communick.news ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Is it?
  Because that seems really dumb.

  Why would any specific niche service want to duplicate the features and functions of every single other niche service? The whole point is to have different experiences and uses, that might be able to (however works for them) interoperate as they see fit.

  It’s a terrible idea that they should all try to eventually do all the same everything.

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  • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I go to pixelfed to post my art and view other peoples art. that’s it. I don’t go there to read posts or what’s going on in peoples lives.

    Yes but being able to do that is a design goal of the fediverse

    Is it? Beause that seems really dumb.

    Here’s a radical idea: sometimes, web services are built with features you don’t use. Sometimes you don’t even *value *those features. But, in cases where your preference isn’t in the majority, the decision to include those features won’t match your personal preference.

    Sometimes, the ability to share and see content between different sites is even a core value.

    Weird.

    For more information, search “false consensus”.

    You may want to learn how you can configure your own accounts on various services to manage what you see on each one. Because, to some extent, that’s a configuration option.

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    • Steve@communick.news ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      But your saying Peertube should have all the forum functionality of Lemmy, and the endless short video scroll of Loops.

      rgluilis suggested a generic server idea, where the media and experience differentiating is done at the client app level. That could work well. But that’s an entirely different cincpet and structure.

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  • n7gifmdn@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It might not be what you want, but it is what I want, which is why my primary social media is Friendica because IMHO it does a really good job of working well with all. They have dedicated photo albums, lemmy communities show as Friendica Forums, etc.

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    • Steve@communick.news ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      And that’s great! Everyone gets what they want. But suggesting Lemmy, Pixelfed, and Peertube, etc. should all try to do it the way Friendica does, is a bad idea.

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      • n7gifmdn@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        agreed 100% I apologize if it sounded like I was saying something different.

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  • baronvonj@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s a terrible idea that they should all try to eventually do all the same everything.

    I don’t want them all to do the same thing, but I don’t want to have to have a separate identity on each one and have to redundantly follow people on the multiple platforms.

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    • Blaze@piefed.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You can’t follow people on Lemmy or Piefed, and everybody here seems fine with that

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      • baronvonj@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I can from a number of other Fediverse platforms. I may not be able to follow you on Lemmy like I can follow a community, but I can still find your account to see your posts and comments, and that limitation doesn’t really impact me having to have per-instance accounts versus having a fediverse-wide account. I have probably a dozen fediverse accounts across multiple platforms. I want to have my fediverse identity able to access all fediverse platforms and that other people using that platform can find me as.

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      • n7gifmdn@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        which is one of the great advantages of the Fedi verse, because you can if you want to. Mbin lets you, Frienidca lets you, and Mastodon lets you. I don’t like how Mastodon handles lemmy communities or Friendica Forums by making it look as though the group user re-toots every post and comment, but others do! We can all have what we want thanks to the magic of Free Software!

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    • Steve@communick.news ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Why would you follow the same accounts on multiple platforms?
      Or do you mean one person who has accounts on multiple platforms?

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      • baronvonj@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        If I have a mutual who is on multiple platforms, and I also have accounts on those same multiple platforms, we would generally be following each other mutually on those same platforms.

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