Instagram hasn't been a photography app for a while. Sure, you can upload photos to the app; a few people might even see it. The focus of Instagram, these days, is squarely on stories and videos. And ...

Pixelfed is now available as a mobile apps for both iOS and Android. The open source, decentralized platform offers image sharing similar to Instagram. However, Pixelfed has no advertisements and does ...

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

Pixelfed recently said it’s seeing ‘unprecedented levels of traffic’ to the original pixelfed.social server. Pixelfed recently said it’s seeing ‘unprecedented levels of traffic’ to the original ...

Instagram has degraded its experience for years with ads, distracting videos and an algorithm that sometimes seems schizophrenic at serving up content you're interested in seeing. Now, with parent ...

In a turn of events that may be causing Meta headaches, a decentralized alternative to Instagram is growing by leaps and bounds. Pixelfed is a free and open-source photo-sharing site that was ...

Meta appeared to be blocking links to Pixelfed, a decentralized photo-sharing platform, on Facebook, according to both users on Bluesky and 404 Media. A small group of posts that linked to ...

Mastodon is not done making headlines. One November 26, the open-source and federated platform announced, via Twitter, that they would be launching Pixelfed, “a fediverse alternative to Instagram and ...

Jeff Carlson writes about mobile technology for CNET. He is also the author of dozens of how-to books covering a wide spectrum ranging from Apple devices and cameras to photo editing software and ...