Chuck Darwin on Nostr: Pixelfed a decentralized alternative to Instagram, has launched its official mobile ...
Pixelfed
a decentralized alternative to Instagram, has launched its official mobile apps.
The service today runs on the same ActivityPub protocol that powers Mastodon,
YouTube competitor PeerTube,
and other decentralized social apps,
now including Meta’s Threads and Flipboard (plus its new app, Surf),
that are part of a growing push toward a more open social web known as the Fediverse.
Pixelfed was originally developed in 2018 by Daniel Supernault,
who also recently created the federated TikTok rival Loops.
Similar to 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 chronological feeds
— which are its selling points to users
https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/14/decentralized-instagram-alternative-pixelfed-launches-mobile-apps/
a decentralized alternative to Instagram, has launched its official mobile apps.
The service today runs on the same ActivityPub protocol that powers Mastodon,
YouTube competitor PeerTube,
and other decentralized social apps,
now including Meta’s Threads and Flipboard (plus its new app, Surf),
that are part of a growing push toward a more open social web known as the Fediverse.
Pixelfed was originally developed in 2018 by Daniel Supernault,
who also recently created the federated TikTok rival Loops.
Similar to 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 chronological feeds
— which are its selling points to users
https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/14/decentralized-instagram-alternative-pixelfed-launches-mobile-apps/