The platform is seeing a surge in reputation following Meta’s announcement final week that it could be drastically changing its content moderation policies; over the weekend, Pixelfed said that it’s seeing “unprecedented ranges of visitors” to the pixelfed.social server and was working to extend assets.
Pixelfed was additionally in the news this week as a result of some customers claimed that Meta randomly blocked hyperlinks to the positioning 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 called Loops. With TikTok facing a ban in the US and the fallout from Meta’s content material moderation adjustments, Pixelfed and Loops provide different choices for folks to leap ship to.