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PixelfedLaunched a decentralized alternative to Instagram official mobile apps. Today, the service runs on the same ActivityPub protocol that provides the open source X alternative MastodonYouTube competitor PeerTube and other decentralized social apps, including now Meta’s Topics and Flipboard (plus its newer app, Surf), these are part of a growing push toward a more open social network known as fediverse.
Pixelfed was originally developed in 2018 by Daniel Supernault, who recently created federated TikTok competitor Loops. Like Instagram, Pixelfed allows users to share and explore photos and videos and send direct messages to others. However, very unlike Instagram, Pixelfed is ad-free, open source, decentralized, and defaults to timeline feeds with selling points for users.
At a time when there are people prefer to join another Chinese program If rather than returning to Meta The TikTok ban remains in effect According to the US Supreme Court decision, Pixelfed’s applications have a better chance of success because users are trying to move away from Meta (no longer fact checked) social media.
To start Pixelfed, users can choose to connect to one of the community’s servers or self-host a Pixelfed instance, as with other federated applications.
Before the debut of Pixelfed’s mobile app, people could use Pixelfed via the web or third-party mobile apps. Impression. Now, the service offers its official mobile apps for both Android and iOS after earlier beta tests.
Android Pixelfed launched on Tuesday, just before the iOS app, and it took just two days to reach 10,000 downloads, Supernault noted on his Mastodon account. App now too #1 Social app On Google Play in several markets, including the US
He he also said 11,000 new users joined one of the best Pixelfed examples, pixelfed.socialin the last 24 hours. This server alone saw over 78,000 posts on Tuesday alone.
Pixelfed apps are free to use and do not collect any user data.
