2w ago

Pixelfed: "groups" are coming and they will be compatible with Lemmy (who knows if they will also be compatible with Friendica)

Groups are not new to Pixelfed, we have webUI support but the feature wasn't polished enough for use, until now ✨
:pixelfed: Groups will be compatible with #Lemmy, #Mbin, #Smithereen and other projects, and will resemble Facebook Groups in our official app!
Stay tuned, we'll be shipping the updated Groups support in the app and webUI this weekend 🚀

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Can't wait for the culture clash between Lemmy and Pixelfed 😅
- The more variety the better we are as a social network.
  
  Oh yeah, I'm just not sure how the two groups will interact. Wait until hardcore FOSS defenders learn that the majority of Pixelfed users have iPhones
  
  @muntedcrocodile @Blaze There will be no culture clash: Lemmy communities are already compatible with Pixelfed accounts
- I'm on both; really enjoying the art sharing community vibe of PixelFed rather than the constant influencer attention seeking shower of IG.
- From what I can tell, the culture on pixelfed is more chill, whimsical, artsy.
  While lemmy is more technical, politicsy, confrontational etc?
  I haven’t been much on PixelFed since the massive explosion in users though.
  
  I think pixelfed communities would be a big boon to non-computer science/engineering type hobby communities. Which is a place in which lemmy majorly lacks. So good news imo.
  
  Because its root is ~Marxist techies, I think it takes many newbies by surprise and is not super enjoyable for the average user.
  
  There's a lot of the same people on both. Like me!
- Healthy for Lemmy, totally catastrophic for Pixelfed.
  
  How so?

Compatible means Pixelfed group = Lemmy community?
- yeah pretty much
- @oce Maybe yes

Waiting for frendica compatibility so we can talk to !nicole@feddit.org

Awesome. This is what I thought Friendica was capable of, but looking forward to see it on Pixelfed.
- @meldrik If Pixelfed groups are compatible with Lemmy and Mbin, then they will also be compatible with Friendica. And Friendica groups are already compatible with Lemmy and they are already compatible with Pixelfed accounts

This is absolutely perfect! The crowd I am following on Pixelfed is pretty much exactly what I am still partially missing on Lemmy. So excited about this. Thanks for sharing!
- My understanding is that these groups are separate from the normal Pixelfed feed.
  
  Sure, but I still suspect that we’ll get a large influx of crafters and other artists that will be visible in Lemmy directly. Still very much excited

He's mentioned this before, but I've never been able to find an actual PixelFed Group (it doesn't appear to be the same thing as what they call Collections). I'll have another look when pixelfed.social enables them this weekend (but I suspect parsing titles for the posts will be a nightmare).
Also, 'smithereen' is tagged but I'm not sure of its status (all I found was 1 private instance run by the dev, federated with 1 "explicitly-free-speech" Akkoma instance).
- Same. Groups were merged a while ago but I've never seen them

Excited to see Lemmy inundated with random "pic for attention" posts.

It would be nice if they did it the same way piefed works. GL to the team!

I finally got my pixelfed account approved and I forgot my password like a dummy. I'm worried that clicking 'Forgot Password' the first time I go to log in will flag me as untrustworthy somehow. 😅

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