Meta Is Blocking Links to Decentralized Instagram Competitor Pixelfed
Source: 404 Media
Meta is deleting links to Pixelfed, a decentralized Instagram competitor. On Facebook, the company is labeling links to Pixelfed.social as spam and deleting them immediately.
Pixelfed is an open-source, community funded and decentralized image sharing platform that runs on Activity Pub, which is the same technology that supports Mastodon and other federated services. Pixelfed.social is the largest Pixelfed server, which was launched in 2018 but has gained renewed attention over the last week.
Bluesky user AJ Sadauskas originally posted that links to Pixelfed were being deleted by Meta; 404 Media then also tried to post a link to Pixelfed on Facebook. It was immediately deleted.
Pixelfed is experiencing a surge in user signups in recent days, after Meta announced that it would loosen its rules to allow users to call LGBTQ+ people mentally ill amid a host of other changes that shift the company overtly to the right. Meta and Instagram have also leaned heavily into AI-generated content. Pixelfed announced earlier Monday that it is launching an iOS app later this week.
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Read more: https://www.404media.co/meta-is-blocking-links-to-decentralized-instagram-competitor-pixelfed/
Pixelfed is at
https://pixelfed.org

2naSalit
(95,073 posts)Discriminatory.
Attilatheblond
(5,055 posts)along with supporting online monopolies.
Basso8vb
(648 posts)Thanks the the link!
Oopsie Daisy
(5,183 posts)Or is it open to the entire world rather than "just friends" or by invitation only?
This is likely an expensive venture... how can they afford to offer this service if it's ad-free... what's the catch?
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neohippie
(1,183 posts)This looks like a good place to go when I close my Facebook and Instagram accounts