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Pixelfed , a decentralized alternative to Instagram , has launch itsofficial roving apps . The Robert William Service today run on the same ActivityPub protocol that powers open source X alternativeMastodon , YouTube competitor PeerTube , and other decentralized social apps , now including Meta’sThreadsandFlipboard(plus its new app , Surf ) , that are part of a growing pushing toward a more unfastened social web known as the fediverse .
Pixelfed was in the beginning develop in 2018 by Daniel Supernault , who also recently created thefederated TikTok competition Loops . Similar to Instagram , Pixelfed allows exploiter to share and explore photos and television and commit lineal messages to others . However , very unlike Instagram , Pixelfed is ad - free , open seed , decentralize , and defaults to chronological feeds — which are its merchandising points to exploiter .
At a time when peoplewould rather join another Chinese appthan return to Meta ifTikTok ’s banning is upheldby the U.S. Supreme Court , Pixelfed ’s apps stand a better fortune at success as users seek to distance themselves from Meta ’s ( no longer fact - check ) social media .
To get started with Pixelfed , drug user can choose to connect one of the community ’s server or ego - emcee a Pixelfed instance , as with other federated apps .
Prior to Pixelfed ’s mobile app debut , multitude could use Pixelfed via the web or through third - party mobile apps likeImpressia . Now , the service offers its own official mobile apps for both Android and iOS , following their early beta tests .
The Android Pixelfed launch just ahead of Tuesday ’s iOS app , and it only take two days to reach 10,000 downloads , Supernaultnotedon his Mastodon account . The app is also now theNo . 1 Social appon Google swordplay in a number of mart , include the U.S.
Healso saidthat 11,000 new exploiter connect one of the top Pixelfed instances , pixelfed.social , over the past 24 hours . That server alone has seen more than 78,000 posts on Tuesday alone .
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The Pixelfed apps are free to use and do not amass any user datum .
