I'm so happy to see an Instagram alternative. We can continue helping people find a better way to post and engage without giving data to everyone and their mom

[–] AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 13 points 16 hours ago (4 children)

You what we need? A snapchat alternative. I actually like the idea of snapchat even though i hate the product. Just sending a random picture to your freinds every day is a cool thing imo. And it would be pretty easy to implement probably because you wouldnt need to federate posts just send it to the users you sent it to.

[–] hanrahan@slrpnk.net 2 points 4 hours ago

Just sending a random picture to your freinds every day is a cool thing imo.

You can do that with Signal ?

[–] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 4 points 12 hours ago

Honestly, just building an RCS app with easy grouping, quick captions, streak tracking, and delete requests would be the way to go with this. Then you have an immediate network effect of every iPhone and Android user in the world, and you don't have to get your friends to switch if they don't want to.

[–] m_f@discuss.online 14 points 16 hours ago

Signal has a lot of overlap there. They've got disappearing messages and Stories

[–] VintageGenious@sh.itjust.works 4 points 12 hours ago

Signal could provide that with a few more features

[–] airportline@lemmy.ml 7 points 17 hours ago

I've heard discussion of Pixelfed on both TikTok and RedNote, which is exciting! Hopefully it's easy to use.

[–] Corno@lemm.ee 5 points 16 hours ago

This is great! Pixelfed has been getting an influx of new users lately and it makes me happy that these sites are getting more traction!

[–] MITM0@lemmy.world 8 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

Is Loops proprietary ? (I'm being serious here)

[–] AshMeshedUp@lemmy.world 14 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Dansup is required to release the source code for Loops under the Nlnet grant's conditions I believe.

[–] MITM0@lemmy.world 2 points 18 hours ago

That clears my doubts, thank you

[–] m_f@discuss.online 12 points 19 hours ago

Source hasn't been released, but the dev has said it will be and there's no reason to doubt that IMO. Same dev as pixelfed which is open source and federated

[–] jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 56 points 1 day ago (10 children)

The Fediverse needs UI work. The new world needs a new internet.

I'm thankful we have this glorified hobbyist project of a micro internet, because it's awesome. It's time for real layout work to make things more intuitive, instead of this "just solder it" open-source-in-the-bad-way energy that sometimes gets half-assedly splattered around.

For everybody who has and is working on the Fediverse, thank you.

[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 16 points 20 hours ago (4 children)

"The UI is bad" is the stock attack on any open-source project. Doesn't matter how good the UI actually is, or how bad the corporate version is, "bad UI" is such a nebulous criticism that you can apply it to anything.

[–] LandedGentry@lemmy.zip 7 points 11 hours ago

It’s a stock attack because unfortunately it’s generally a pretty safe attack vector

[–] dantheclamman@lemmy.world 6 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

Which is amusing, because the UX for Facebook, X and TikTok are horrendous also. So much stuff buried under layers of settings

[–] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 5 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Well, that's intentional though. The stuff that's buried is the stuff that doesn't make them money.

Bad ux in open source is because nobody has any money.

[–] belit_deg@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

Well, people make good code that is open source, even though it doesn't make them any money. Same with wikipedia articles.

So why are we not seeing more contributions in the form of better UX/UI it the open source world? I don't see a logical reason why that has to be the case. The question is what can we do to change it, and also get UX-designers on board?

[–] lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 12 hours ago

"The UI is bad" = "It doesn't feed me new and popular content automatically"

Basically sums that up.

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[–] somtwo@lemmy.world 26 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The reason I dislike this comment is it characterizes the work of many different people as "don't care." I would bet money that there are people who work on fediverse projects who care very deeply about UX but have to settle because they have day jobs.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 5 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

The UI's aren't that bad. They're replicating existing apps/styles and then bolting on features. In some clases like immich, they're replicating them so closely they're probably open for lawsuit :)

Loops is 75% TikToc. Lemmy is 60% Reddit.

If we had a couple of UI artists and Usability people join the projects and crank out designs, I wonder if the devs would implement them and spend the time making the output true to the design.

[–] nonfuinoncuro@lemm.ee 3 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I only used sync on reddit and that's all I use on lemmy, tried many of the others and they're good but not perfect, for both the closed source and open source projects

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 4 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I'm using Voyager. It's amazing that we have choices.

Reddit and Facebook's interfaces aren't any better than anything we're using, and they're full of sponsored content.

[–] yonder@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 hours ago

Voyager is pretty slick. I think it's UI is almost perfect and waay better than the Reddit UI.

[–] independantiste@sh.itjust.works 4 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

We have https://phanpy.social/ for mastodon, it's great

[–] Blaze@feddit.org 13 points 1 day ago

Lemmy is lucky to have alternative frontend like Photon, Tesseract and Alexandrite

[–] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 5 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

This will never happen without funding. Open Source severaly lacks funding big corporations have.

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[–] hitagi@ani.social 46 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I was surprised when my friend casually brought up Pixelfed (he called it "Pixelfeed") and Bluesky the other day.

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 28 points 1 day ago (1 children)

For the average person who doesn't understand or care about federated systems, "pixelfeed" is probably a better name. It feeds you pixels.

[–] coldsideofyourpillow@lemmy.cafe 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

tbh I always thought of the original name as “being fed by pixels”

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 day ago

I'm guessing it's a pun on both fed meaning "eats, runs on, is powered by" and "federation/fediverse."

[–] mesamunefire@lemmy.world 103 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (27 children)

Excellent. They are seeing huge growth. I'm hoping it's sustainable, the main server is just getting slammed right now (according to the mastodon posts).

According to fedidb all they need is 70k ish more people and I get will surpass Lemmy in number of users.

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[–] dhhyfddehhfyy4673@fedia.io 23 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Mainstream media is an antiquated term. Been a while since they've been mainstream. Corporate media, or legacy media even, is more suitable nowadays.

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[–] d0ntpan1c@lemmy.blahaj.zone 59 points 1 day ago (7 children)

Kickstarter coming sometime soon to get some more resources going for it and related projects. will be interesting to see if it's effective.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pixelfed/pixelfed-foundation-2024-real-ethical-social-networks

Dan tends to work on too many things simultaneously (which isn't bad per say, and he thrives doing so) which means things get stalled and its a little hectic. Hoping more funds and community excitement will help spread the work out more and allow him to keep working as he does without other projects being on pause in the meantime.

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