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The beta for groups will release later this week, which won't be federated initially. Federation will be added afterwards.

Looks like it will have some interesting features like videos, polls, and events, as well as moderator tools like limiting what a user can do.

A menu in Pixelfed titled 'Limit Interactions' which shows that a moderator can prevent specific users from posting, commenting, or liking posts and comments.

Some links:

https://mastodon.social/@dansup/110931821965407984

https://mastodon.social/@pixelfed/110931868347117511

https://mastodon.social/@pixelfed/110931984467276917

https://mastodon.social/@pixelfed/110932004988109773

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[–] fucker 107 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I hope we get more instances thats more art focsed rather then tech. I see a lot of protential with that.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

lemmyloves.art was just created and there’s also literature.cafe, but there definitely should be more focused instances being created, instead of general-purpose ones.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago

In case you haven't seen it yet, I've compiled a fairly sizeable list of focused instances. More would be cool, but there's a fair number to check out already.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Thanks for the shout out! I agree, more niche hobby focused instances are better.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Thank you for actually creating it! Moderating even a small community is difficult, I cannot even imagine what it’s like for a whole instance. I wish you luck and hope it takes off!

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Today there was a post about an art instance for Lemmy 😊

Maybe someone will create one on Pixelfed too

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Aw thank you for the shout out! I run lemmyloves.art as well as literature.cafe I contemplated making an art focused instance on pixelfed over lemmy but the software just generally isn't there yet imo. Maybe someday I might give it a shot provided if I get donations to help sustain my current instances on lemmy. I like pixelfed and it's rapid development though, it's extremely promising.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Yes the dev made huge progress the last few weeks I wish you good luck with your instance. I subscripted to pixelart already 🌞

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I just made an account on literature.cafe last night. :) Haven't gotten around to logging in and doing anything yet, but I like having a couple alts to see unique local feeds and such, and yours looked so interesting! I love how federation allows for those kinds of interest-specific instances. Can't wait to explore yours. :)

[–] elscallr 1 points 2 years ago

If it reaches a certain critical mass. These things always have a tech bias at the beginning because it's the nerds who invent them.

[–] TheSpookiestUser 45 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I hope Lemmy eventually picks up more features like polls. I miss natively embedding polls.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

And I hope you can view the result WITHOUT HAVING TO SIGN IN REDDIT/TWITTER HMMMM

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Looks smooth and I can see a lot of good things about this, but I also hope it doesn't slowly shift Pixelfed away from being an image sharing site. I really don't want my feed over there cluttered up with other things than photography and occasional traditional art - polls and text posts is just not what I'm there for.

Still, I'm sure they've thought about that, and there's some great potential for art groups. :)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

God forbid our endless feed of cat pictures and black and white telephone poles gets polluted!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

I just saw this response. Our telephone poles are safe - text posts will be groups only.

[–] ittu 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

that dev is working his ass off. salute!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

Yet it still can’t handle video uploads from an iPhone simply because the video formats are hardcoded to mp4.

I believe the PR for it is nearing a year old now

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

great news!

[–] Dick_Justice 6 points 2 years ago