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The app is not showing posts that don't contain a picture, but shows posts that do. So if you browse someone Mastodon account on Pixelfed, you will see just fra

by karel-3d 10mo ago

The app is not showing posts that don't contain a picture, but shows posts that do. So if you browse someone Mastodon account on Pixelfed, you will see just fraction of their posts. https://ploum.net/2025-12-04-pixelfed-against-fediverse.html https://ploum.net/2025-12-04-pixelfed-against-fediverse.html I don't think it's important at all because nobody really uses Mastodon anyway; but it shows that doing decentralised software is hard, because each actor can just do whatever they want.

Kye 10mo ago
Meanwhile this is the normal, expected, and well-received behavior on ATproto. Every platform defines its own lexicon and can optionally support others. It wouldn't make sense for a blogging platform like (for example) Leaflet to show Bluesky posts the same way it shows blog posts. And apps can be selective too: Skylight only shows video posts. It's exactly how it should be for a video app. The "account" then is just the data on your PDS with as many views into it as someone wants to develop. If I'm browsing (viewing) an account (subset of data) through a platform or app devoted to one type of content (data), I only want to see that kind of content in the main timeline. I can always pull out something like ATExplore or PDSls if I want to see everything. The complaint only makes sense for a protocol that expects you to make a new account for a new platform and has limited portability. It doesn't make sense when an "account" is just a view into data, no more morally compromised than an SQL query. I'm skeptical the movement to revive the dead half of ActivityPub that could enable similar functionality will go anywhere, but I am rooting for the folks behind it.
OrangeMusic 10mo ago
> nobody really uses Mastodon anyway 760 000 active users [1] beg to differ [1]: https://mastodon-analytics.com/ https://mastodon-analytics.com/
- karel-3d 10mo ago
  Wow that is more than I thought, I take it back edit: the graph is not great, it seems to have plateaued, but also not decreasing. Good for a decentralized protocol.
BeetleB 10mo ago
> I don't think it's important at all because nobody really uses Mastodon anyway; Me and all the (real human) people I follow on Mastodon disagree. Many well known people are on Mastodon. A lot of folks I used to follow on RSS are on Mastodon. For me, Mastodon is what killed RSS.[1] [1] RSS was well and alive long after Google Reader shut down.

Kye 10mo ago

Meanwhile this is the normal, expected, and well-received behavior on ATproto. Every platform defines its own lexicon and can optionally support others. It wouldn't make sense for a blogging platform like (for example) Leaflet to show Bluesky posts the same way it shows blog posts. And apps can be selective too: Skylight only shows video posts. It's exactly how it should be for a video app. The "account" then is just the data on your PDS with as many views into it as someone wants to develop. If I'm browsing (viewing) an account (subset of data) through a platform or app devoted to one type of content (data), I only want to see that kind of content in the main timeline. I can always pull out something like ATExplore or PDSls if I want to see everything. The complaint only makes sense for a protocol that expects you to make a new account for a new platform and has limited portability. It doesn't make sense when an "account" is just a view into data, no more morally compromised than an SQL query. I'm skeptical the movement to revive the dead half of ActivityPub that could enable similar functionality will go anywhere, but I am rooting for the folks behind it.

OrangeMusic 10mo ago

> nobody really uses Mastodon anyway 760 000 active users [1] beg to differ [1]: https://mastodon-analytics.com/ https://mastodon-analytics.com/

karel-3d 10mo ago
Wow that is more than I thought, I take it back edit: the graph is not great, it seems to have plateaued, but also not decreasing. Good for a decentralized protocol.

BeetleB 10mo ago

> I don't think it's important at all because nobody really uses Mastodon anyway; Me and all the (real human) people I follow on Mastodon disagree. Many well known people are on Mastodon. A lot of folks I used to follow on RSS are on Mastodon. For me, Mastodon is what killed RSS.[1] [1] RSS was well and alive long after Google Reader shut down.