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Love seeing Pixelfed mentioned here. I've thought of it as an Instagram replacement but if it's practical as a Google photos alternative that's an added bonus.
by glenstein 6y ago
Love seeing Pixelfed mentioned here. I've thought of it as an Instagram replacement but if it's practical as a Google photos alternative that's an added bonus.
- StavrosK 6y agoI also know of it as an Instagram-type experience, and it's quite good at that, too. From my limited usage, I don't think it could replace Google Photos, though.
- glenstein 6y agoRight, that's what got me wondering. I've got an account on the flagship Pixelfed instance, and I started thinking whether that's a plausible use case - setting all uploads to private (or, I guess "unlisted" is the only available option) and effectively using it like Google Photos. I guess it's a bit of a stretch but my preferred attitude is to be open minded and generally to cheer on the activitypub projects. They are, in the end, a force for good.
- StavrosK 6y agoCertainly, but it's a free service hosted by volunteers, and I think uploading gigabytes of private photos would hurt the service for no benefit to them.
- djsumdog 6y agoIt's a Fediverse program (uses ActivityPub) which lets people follow Pixelfed servers from any Mastoson, Pleroma or other server that implements ActivityPub. PeerTube is a similar service for video hosting. The Fediverse is the future, and the future is distributed.
- Fire-Dragon-DoL 6y agoCan you _hide_ everything? Because my main goal is to share within my family, but surely it must not be accessed from others without my authorization first
- glenstein 6y agoOh, I'm very aware, and very happy that this is the case. This to me is a major advantage that Pixelfed has over basically everything else in the thread. I had never considered Pixelfed as a google photos alternative but am glad that something in the activitypub universe might be used that way.