The platform is seeing a surge in recognition following Meta’s announcement final week that it could be drastically altering its content material moderation insurance policies; over the weekend, Pixelfed mentioned that it’s seeing “unprecedented ranges of site visitors” to the pixelfed.social server and was working to extend sources.
Pixelfed was additionally within the information this week as a result of some customers claimed that Meta randomly blocked hyperlinks to the location they shared on Fb. In keeping with Engadget, Meta blocked the Pixelfed hyperlinks by mistake and is now reinstating the posts.
The creator of Pixelfed, Daniel Supernault, additionally launched a decentralized model of TikTok final October known as Loops. With TikTok going through a ban within the US and the fallout from Meta’s content material moderation adjustments, Pixelfed and Loops provide different choices for folks to leap ship to.
