I can appreciate that there are fediverse services like Loops and Pixelfed because the more the merrier. But after spending a year+ watching the lead dev interact with others and respond to cultural moments for the fediverse’s evolution, this is the kind of mentality that pushes me away from using them.
It’s very BDFL energy, and is exactly the kind of the a lot of people on the fediverse are trying to get away from.
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Also, it is worth nothing very specifically that Pixelfed hides the account deletion page. It is only reachable directly, if you know the URL to go to (/settings/remove/request/permanent). This was brought up a year and a half ago in a GitHub issue, and has gone unacknowledged by the maintainer since. Granted, it's an open source project and anyone could submit a PR to link to it from the account settings page or something, but still.
Pixelfed also, notably and admittedly does not federate deletions, there's a clear warning about this on the deletion page that dates to 2018. So you can delete it, but your profile is stuck out on remote instances. Given the 7 years that have passed, there doesn't seem to be any desire from the maintainer to close that gap.
The prioritization of actual data ownership and control is lacking, so the similarly lazy approach to the TOS doesn't surprise me in the least.
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@ryanboswell Thanks, I was wondering about that. I only recently started experimenting with the PixelFed instance. If you can recommend an alternative to study that would be appreciated.
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@muiren the only other photo-sharing focused one I know of is @vernissage, it’s very new and from the developer behind one of the better Pixelfed mobile apps IMO (@impressia).
It seems promising as a much more photography/photographer leaning app, although I haven’t tried it yet - the main instance is a closed beta and in active development, and I’m not yet adventurous enough to try standing up my own.
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