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In exchange for events that can lead to the topic of Meta, another channel established by Instagram is growing rapidly and without limits. Pixelfed is a free and open source photo sharing website that was originally created in 2018 and, for the past few years, has been available online. online or through other programs. This week, however, Pixelfed he announced the release of its mobile apps for iOS and Android, which shows the huge growth of the site which already has 330,000 users and a growing base.
Pixelfed has sought to present itself as everything that Instagram is not. Unlike the Meta site, Pixelfed has no ads, and offers users a agreement which respects their “fundamental rights” to “participate in an Internet environment that respects their privacy, dignity, and life.” The charter promises limited but consistent data collection, transparent algorithms, and zero-tracking and tracking information online. “Pixelfed is a lot of things, but one thing is not the opportunity for VC or others to destroy the vibe. I have refused VC money and I will not introduce any kind of marketing in this project,” the creator of Pixelfed, Daniel Supernault, he recently wrote on Mastodon. “Pixelfed is for people, period.”
This independence may be the reason why the program seems to be growing in popularity. Indeed, the growth of Pixelfed has increased in the last week, the platform announces the number of users who sometimes test the content of the small group. “We’re seeing a lot of traffic to pixelfed.social, and we’re working hard to keep it going and provide more content!” Mastodon’s website he wrote on Sunday.
You can understand how this would make the Meta a little nervous. Earlier this week, suspicions arose when 404 Media he said that the tech giant was caught monitoring and removing Pixelfed links from its own websites. Meta used the violation of its spam policy as justification. But when approached by Engadget, Meta said that the removal of the Pixelfed links was a “mistake” and that they would later be reinstated.
Gizmodo has reached out to Meta for comment.
The social media industry is in a tougher situation than ever, and the competition between big platforms and low-fi solutions has reached new heights. While Mastodon and other Fediverse sites have it has been around for yearsElon Musk’s takeover of Twitter pushed such sites to prominence. Now, when users are looking for alternatives to X in places like Bluesky and Hive, it is understandable that Internet users may also be interested in another way to provide Meta. As TikTok threatens to disappear forever, internet users are flocking to another Chinese app, RedNotealthough they may be wiser to move instead to Loops, an alternative to Fediverse Supernault launched last year.
