<story><title>Pixelfed – An alternative to centralized image sharing platforms</title><url>https://pixelfed.social/site/about</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jedberg</author><text>I clicked the link and... have no idea what this is.  It looks like instagram maybe?  I can&amp;#x27;t even figure out how to figure out what it is.  The only clickable thing I see is &amp;quot;@admin&amp;quot; which just takes me to what looks like an Instagram page.  It doesn&amp;#x27;t even mention fediverse on that page, and even if it did, you&amp;#x27;d have to know what the fediverse is.&lt;p&gt;This feels like a huge barrier to adoption for them beyond the nerdiest of nerds.&lt;p&gt;I like Instagram because I get to see what my friends are up to.  How will I get my friends on this?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ocdtrekkie</author><text>Most people who might use a service like this won&amp;#x27;t know and maybe won&amp;#x27;t care what the fediverse is and what other services it&amp;#x27;s connected to. The goal should be for that to simply be the underlying standard everything else is built on, regardless of which site&amp;#x2F;client you use to connect to people.&lt;p&gt;But yeah, this is more or less federated Instagram, but the federation is still a work-in-progress, AFAIK.</text></comment>
<story><title>Pixelfed – An alternative to centralized image sharing platforms</title><url>https://pixelfed.social/site/about</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jedberg</author><text>I clicked the link and... have no idea what this is.  It looks like instagram maybe?  I can&amp;#x27;t even figure out how to figure out what it is.  The only clickable thing I see is &amp;quot;@admin&amp;quot; which just takes me to what looks like an Instagram page.  It doesn&amp;#x27;t even mention fediverse on that page, and even if it did, you&amp;#x27;d have to know what the fediverse is.&lt;p&gt;This feels like a huge barrier to adoption for them beyond the nerdiest of nerds.&lt;p&gt;I like Instagram because I get to see what my friends are up to.  How will I get my friends on this?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>deft</author><text>It is an instagram knockoff. I think they are avoiding the fediverse mention on purpose in order to get users by just marketing it as an alternative without any special magic. This about page as a landing page is really confusing but the homepage doesn&amp;#x27;t do much better... Also registration is closed so this is a really strange time to be advertising</text></comment>