Comment on Is Pixelfed sawing off the branch that the Fediverse is sitting on?
aasatru@kbin.earth 5 weeks agoWell, 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. Mastodon is (primarily) microblogging in terms of output, but an everything platform with a chronological feed in terms of input.
This is where this user seems to get confused - they expect everything on the fediverse to display every type of content, just like Mastodon strives to do. Which is, as you said, ridiculous. If PixelFed was to display audio content and Funkwhale was to display pictures, what would be the point of these services in the first place? If they want everything to be Mastodon, why don't they just stick to Mastodon? Maybe Pixelfed users have no interest in reading their dumb blog posts?
mrdown@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Doesn’t the long blog simply got truncated to 500 characters and link you to the original content? Which is very not user friendly
aasatru@kbin.earth 5 weeks ago
Not necessarily, no - it depends on how it is federated, and I believe the settings of the Mastodon instance. For example @blog federates blog posts in full length, while @feed based on Ghost only gives a lead paragraph.
mrdown@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
So it is all over the place it’s so chaotic and confusing for people
aasatru@kbin.earth 5 weeks ago
Terence Eden just wants as many people as possible to read what he writes with as much ease as possible, so he federates the full content. 404 Media wants people to visit their site, and some of the content is behind a paywall, so they keep the content on site. Different needs. Not very complicated.