Update on Pixelfed groups (mastodon.social)
from poVoq@slrpnk.net to fediverse@lemmy.ml on 30 Mar 2024 14:43
https://slrpnk.net/post/8160244

Shipping soon ™ but we heard that before. Still looking forward to it and they explicitly mention Lemmy compatibility.

However for the app API they probably should have just made it compatible with Lemmy apps 🤷‍♂️

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Blaze@dormi.zone on 30 Mar 2024 14:47 next collapse

Good to see Lemmy compatibility!

helenslunch@feddit.nl on 30 Mar 2024 15:17 next collapse

Okay but, why wouldn’t you just use Lemmy? Is PixelFed going to censor posts without a photo?

RmDebArc_5@lemmy.ml on 30 Mar 2024 16:15 collapse

Pixelfed is more like Mastodon for images, you follow people not communities.

helenslunch@feddit.nl on 30 Mar 2024 16:49 collapse

…Well then what is “PixelFed Groups” and why does it federate with Lemmy if it’s fundamentally different?

poVoq@slrpnk.net on 30 Mar 2024 17:01 collapse

It’s just another way of interacting with ActivityPub groups. Like K/Mbin or Piedfed etc. And it seems to be quite nicely integrated with Pixelfed, so making for example photography focussed communities in it (that you can also participate in from Lemmy) seems like a net-win.

moitoi@feddit.de on 30 Mar 2024 15:33 next collapse

Great news!

sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al on 30 Mar 2024 16:20 next collapse

Pretty epic to be fair. Especially the Lemmy compatibility.

lemmyreader@lemmy.ml on 30 Mar 2024 16:23 next collapse

Yay for the mentioned Lemmy compatibility.

ALostInquirer@lemm.ee on 30 Mar 2024 18:49 next collapse

Any indications yet of how this may compare to similar group features or focuses via Friendica and Mobilizon respectively?

0x1C3B00DA@kbin.social on 01 Apr 2024 12:53 collapse

But wait, there's more, we're standardizing our Groups implementation so other projects can take advantage of our App and Client API.

So its compatible with lemmy but uses a different API and they want their API to be the standard for the threadiverse? This is why we should be using the C2S, but since we're not you should just stick with the lemmy api since that's where the client ecosystem is already at.