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Decentralized Instagram alternative Pixelfed launches mobile apps


Pixelfed, a decentralized alternative to Instagram, has launched its official mobile apps. The service today runs on the same ActivityPub protocol that

The service today runs on the same ActivityPub protocol that powers an open source X alternative Mastodon, a YouTube competitor PeerTube, and other decentralized social apps, now including Meta’s Threads and Flipboard(plus its newer app, Surf), that are part of a growing push toward a more open social web known as the fediverse. However, very unlike Instagram, Pixelfed is ad-free, open source, decentralized, and defaults to chronological feeds — which are its selling points to users. The Android Pixelfed launched just ahead of Tuesday’s iOS app, and it only took two days to reach 10,000 downloads, Supernault noted on his Mastodon account.

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