The Fediverse might be getting their own mashups of Tiktok, YouTube, and Vine sooner than anyone thought, thanks to the work of one prolific dev spearheading an effort. The best part? He’s helping other projects in the space, too.
Well this is Interesting.
Video storage and bandwidth is probably my most pressing concern, but that’s the same as with peertube, no?
Speaking of which, are they going to consult with PeerTube for cross compatibility?
Ew, no thanks.
GET OFF MY DECENTRALIZED LAWN REEEEE
Pixelfed is really interesting, and this sounds like a fun project!
The only problem major problem I have encountered with trying to use defederated social medias, outside of Lemmy, like it and mastadon has been the lack of discover ability. I guess I don’t know how to properly utilize the platforms, but I never find much that is particular to my interests
What’s wrong with finding content using hashtags and keyword searches?
Right now hash tags on the largest pixelfed instance (pixelfed.social) are broken—clicking a hash tag in a photo’s caption takes the user to a missing page. Even on other instances where browsing by hash tag isn’t broken, they aren’t federated, so if you click #Amsterdam, you’ll only see other photos on the same (smaller) instance, and it’s not even obvious whether that’s working right because the post count will say one thing, but it’ll only show you like three or four photos.
Lots of potential, but it’s just not there yet.
And no one will use it because mobile apps can’t upload.
What? why not?
donno, i spent about 6 months looking for a federated video service i could host. all of them had issues with mobile uploads on iOS and Android.
Dansup has never published an app so i doubt they’re going to solve the problem no one else has.
The Pixelfed app isn’t officially published yet, but you can easily grab a beta build: https://pixelfed.org/mobile-apps
can those apps upload video?
They can upload videos for Stories, I don’t think videos can be uploaded elsewhere from mobile, at the moment.
i dont see the option to share a video to pixelfed on iOS.
