The platform is seeing a surge in reputation following Meta’s announcement final week that it will be drastically altering its content material moderation insurance policies; over the weekend, Pixelfed said that it’s seeing “unprecedented ranges of site 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. Based on 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 modifications, Pixelfed and Loops provide different choices for individuals to leap ship to.