Probably just the timing. Mbin was forked from Kbin after the majority of newcomers from Reddit settled on Lemmy over Kbin. Because Kbin was pretty much the one-man show with an unreliable flagship instance during the initial big wave of users coming over.

This is how it works on BlueSky. And you can detach your original post from someone else’s quote post of it after-the-fact.

Presumably any ActivityPub platform that can search users globally and any instance that doesn’t block the bridgy domain/instance.

You can go to https://phtn.app/ and proxy login to any Lemmy instance. But admins can also self-host Photon on their domain, like https://p.lemmy.world/.

It is pucture-based, but the is more of grouping images clipped from websites (you can upload your own images, too).

It originally set out to be just an account-hosting instance, at a time when the major instances with the big communities would be going down as usage surged from people leaving Reddit. This way it was more responsive and reliably online. They have <10 communities hosted on the instance.

I just tried searching for @pics@lemmy.world on pixelfed.social and it was not found. However I can find myself when I search for @baronvonj@lemmy.world on pixelfed.social. So seems like you can’t.

Ah, yeah that makes sense then. They’re over 30M active users now.

Jack is still the single largest shareholder of private Bluesky stock …

Oh vraiment?

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8dm0ljg4y6o

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluesky#:~:text=It is owned by CEO,Mike Masnick%2C and Kinjal Shah.

If anyone tells you Jack isn’t involved with BlueSky any more, you should really block them for either being willfully ignorant, or purposefully mistrustful

Sure thing. 👍

Their protocol allows for federated relay servers, but I’m not aware of anyone having done the exercise of launching one.

Hard European Tankie Left, who Administer and Moderate most of it’s instances

Weapons grade balognium. There’s ml and Lemmygrad, sure, but that’s not “most” instances by a long shot.

Jack isn’t involved with BlueSky anymore. He left the board when they told him to fuck off with his push to get rid of moderation.

I’ve got nothing to add to the other replies on your mischaracterization of antio-Zionist as anti-Semitism.

But that still just creates a new Pixelfed account which trusts the Mastodon account identity, and it must be followed separatel from the Mastodon account. And you can’t enable the SSO between existing accounts, and there’s no account migration on Pixelfed.

but I think the assumption that you’d centralize multiple AP services in a single app now feels entirely obsolete

It’s not that I want a single app, it’s that I want a single account with all my posts/data even though I’m using different apps. I don’t want to have to have so many duplicate follows across all the different fediverse apps.

Pixelfed briefly had ability to show posts that don’t have a picture attachment. I couldn’t find any reason why the feature went away.

As the mod of a couple of sports communities it would be nice to have some more automated content being posted (like game-day match threads, player trades, etc). However, I have yet to receive a response from sportsbots to any of my requests for adding league and team accounts to be mirrored. I don’t think I’d want every one of their microblog post to show up in the communities, though.

Hm. The majority of posts I see on my home timeline are from my followed hashtags, rather than from followed users. So I guess my experience is already notably different than yours.

In the [pixelfed] web UI, on the bottom of the post it should say how many times, if any, a post has been shared (boosted) and a clickable link to show who has shared it. The android app doesn’t seem to include that information though. Also I get a notification when someone has shared my post.

Can an instance block individual communities? I would think if users just don’t subscribe to the political and then set the feed view to subscribed that should sort it out for them.

What’s missing is that Pixelfed shot up in usage this week with it’s official app releases on Apple and Google app stores. It at one point surpassed Facebook and Instagram in the top 10 on Apple I think. That surge was enough to reduce Mastodon’s usage to under 70%. I think Pixelfed monthly active users is now like twice that of Lemmy.