Pixelfed: “groups” are coming and they will be compatible with Lemmy (who knows if they will also be compatible with Friendica)

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Groups are not new to Pixelfed, we have webUI support but the feature wasn’t polished enough for use, until now ✨

:pixelfed: Groups will be compatible with #Lemmy, #Mbin, #Smithereen and other projects, and will resemble Facebook Groups in our official app!

Stay tuned, we’ll be shipping the updated Groups support in the app and webUI this weekend 🚀

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It would be nice if they did it the same way piefed works. GL to the team!

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This is absolutely perfect! The crowd I am following on Pixelfed is pretty much exactly what I am still partially missing on Lemmy. So excited about this. Thanks for sharing!

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My understanding is that these groups are separate from the normal Pixelfed feed.

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Sure, but I still suspect that we’ll get a large influx of crafters and other artists that will be visible in Lemmy directly. Still very much excited

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I’ll really really appreciate this. I like having a few federated services to bounce between when I’m bored, but not a huge fan of actually using pixelfed since it’s more akin to social medias I never used. Having pixelfed content more easily accessible in Lemmy will make it a lot easier for me to interact with larger portion of the Fediverse

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He’s mentioned this before, but I’ve never been able to find an actual PixelFed Group (it doesn’t appear to be the same thing as what they call Collections). I’ll have another look when pixelfed.social enables them this weekend (but I suspect parsing titles for the posts will be a nightmare).

Also, ‘smithereen’ is tagged but I’m not sure of its status (all I found was 1 private instance run by the dev, federated with 1 “explicitly-free-speech” Akkoma instance).

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Same. Groups were merged a while ago but I’ve never seen them

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Compatible means Pixelfed group = Lemmy community?

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yeah pretty much

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Can’t wait for the culture clash between Lemmy and Pixelfed 😅

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I’m on both; really enjoying the art sharing community vibe of PixelFed rather than the constant influencer attention seeking shower of IG.

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The more variety the better we are as a social network.

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Oh yeah, I’m just not sure how the two groups will interact. Wait until hardcore FOSS defenders learn that the majority of Pixelfed users have iPhones

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For an end user iphones arnt that bad tbh just expensive. Says me running the superior GrapheneOS tho.

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From what I can tell, the culture on pixelfed is more chill, whimsical, artsy.

While lemmy is more technical, politicsy, confrontational etc?

I haven’t been much on PixelFed since the massive explosion in users though.

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There’s a lot of the same people on both. Like me!

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Because its root is ~Marxist techies, I think it takes many newbies by surprise and is not super enjoyable for the average user.

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I think pixelfed communities would be a big boon to non-computer science/engineering type hobby communities. Which is a place in which lemmy majorly lacks. So good news imo.

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Yeah, agreed. More content in these fields will help attract and retain more casual users on Lemmy.

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Healthy for Lemmy, totally catastrophic for Pixelfed.

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How so?

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Lemmy could pop their bubble of peace with politics and confrontation.

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