Just passing through. 🮲🮳
Terence Eden just wants as many people as possible to read what he writes with as much ease as possible, so he federates the full content. 404 Media wants people to visit their site, and some of the content is behind a paywall, so they keep the content on site. Different needs. Not very complicated.
Not necessarily, no - it depends on how it is federated, and I believe the settings of the Mastodon instance. For example @blog@shkspr.mobi federates blog posts in full length, while @feed@404media.co based on Ghost only gives a lead paragraph.
I guess the consequence of this is that you won’t have many followers on Pixelfed.
Occasionally photographers on Mastodon I follow from Pixelfed will post things I don’t care much about, but at least I get to see their pictures without having to see their text posts in which I have little to no interest.
Then you probably should have double checked before signing up to an e-mail server dedicated to “Explore + Share beautiful e-mails without the letter P in them”. Pixelfed is extremely open about being a picture platform.
Well, Mastodon will show everything in the feed, no matter if it’s a video, a short blog, a long blog, a picture, a podcast, whatever. Mastodon is (primarily) microblogging in terms of output, but an everything platform with a chronological feed in terms of input.
This is where this user seems to get confused - they expect everything on the fediverse to display every type of content, just like Mastodon strives to do. Which is, as you said, ridiculous. If PixelFed was to display audio content and Funkwhale was to display pictures, what would be the point of these services in the first place? If they want everything to be Mastodon, why don’t they just stick to Mastodon? Maybe Pixelfed users have no interest in reading their dumb blog posts?
I don’t think this is accurate for either of the two projects to be honest.
PieFed made sure to make their API as close to Lemmy’s as possible, and they created feeds so that it would be as easy as possible for Lemmy to integrate in the future.
Vibes between the developers of the two platforms seems good enough.
No need to make up drama where there is none.
There is always a chance of open source projects dying off, but if there’s an active user base who enjoy the software it will usually not die easy.
Mbin is a good example of this. It started out as Kbin, which was a project dominated by one very active developer who made the whole thing on his own. Unfortunately he did not prioritize getting other people on board, and he then suffered what seems to have been pretty severe health problems. Last thing we heard from him was a picture from a hospital bed. I hope he’s alright.
Thankfully, as what he had made was open source, Kbin lives on in the form of Mbin. If you check my domain you’ll see I’m still on a site called “kbin.earth” rather than mbin - this is why.
PieFed’s developer is better at taking other developers onboard. If you check out !piefed_meta@piefed.social you’ll see monthly development updates. The head developer (Rimu) runs the show, but seven other people contributed last month alone.
If Rimu decides to quit, other people can and will take over as long as there’s an interest. PieFed has the added advantage here of being written in Python, which is a language many people know.
So it should be pretty robust, all in all.
As for the future, PieFed just now launched app support. I guess one thing to look out for is the emergence of alternative user interfaces.
Developments are happening fast and the developers are quite creative. It’s fun to follow. :)
In other news, PieFed is open for donations here. The price of a coffee every month would constitute a pretty significant increase in donations.