"feel free to open a PR" - without any justification or discussion about the merit of issue at hand - is the standard passive-aggressive response from every developer who is not interested in making the change.

Man, the entitlement. Especially coming from the only person I know of who is here with the explicit goal of monetizing the platform.

There's a way of voicing concerns and criticisms in a way that is constructive, helpful, and in good faith, inviting to an open discussion with concerned parties. Yours is not that.

If youre still posting on Pixelfed maybe you could try following @bsky[email protected], and ask people to follow you on Bluesky. That's a bit more familiar, and you might have a better change at their algorithm than that of Instagram.

I don't really have a real answer, sorry. Good luck!

In other news, PieFed is open for donations here. The price of a coffee every month would constitute a pretty significant increase in donations.

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 federates blog posts in full length, while @feed 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?

A Company that Makes Everything... And then scraps it for tax write-off.

Happy this will be making it to cinemas after all. Hopefully it'll be a labour of love. The fact that corporate clearly didn't care about it gives me hope.