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.
Some links:
https://mastodon.social/@dansup/110931821965407984
https://mastodon.social/@pixelfed/110931868347117511
I hope we get more instances thats more art focsed rather then tech. I see a lot of protential with that.
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.
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.
!pixelart@lemmyloves.art and !digitalart@lemmyloves.art look great! !fiction@literature.cafe and !nonfiction@literature.cafe too
Thanks for the shout out! I agree, more niche hobby focused instances are better.
Today there was a post about an art instance for Lemmy 😊
Maybe someone will create one on Pixelfed too
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.
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. :)
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.
I hope Lemmy eventually picks up more features like polls. I miss natively embedding polls.
And I hope you can view the result WITHOUT HAVING TO SIGN IN REDDIT/TWITTER HMMMM
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. :)
God forbid our endless feed of cat pictures and black and white telephone poles gets polluted!
I just saw this response. Our telephone poles are safe - text posts will be groups only.
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
Nice
great news!
