Mastodon

Wide blue yonder

This is neat. Someone’s building a image-focused app for Bluesky. It’s not intended to be an #Instagram clone, but you can see some resemblances.

Folks on #Mastodon and #Pixelfed might have noticed that Pixelfed has been getting some attention recently. I’ve been on Pixelfed for a little while, but for most of the time I was on there, I didn’t see a lot of adoption. That’s changing, especially as Pixelfed finally released an iOS app. Pixelfed is ActivityPub-based, so it was already possible to use Pixelfed via fediverse apps like Tusker, but a native app is the first thing potential users will look for. I’d been using the beta version on Test Flight; it’s not bad.

I would love to see more diversity in photo-sharing services. I always thought it was a shame that Flickr’s fortunes sunk the way they did.

(Glass is worth considering also.)

Keep it personal

I think one of the most important features that #Mastodon has and #Bluesky doesn’t is the ability to follow someone and see their posts, but hide third-party content they’re reposting. It might seem small, but it’s the number one issue that discourages me from following people on Bluesky. I want to subscribe to someone’s work without signing up for a torrent of memes and political stuff.

You have this level of control on Mastodon. You don’t on Bluesky.