As a fan of pixelfed I occasionally checkout to see if it is causing any buzz on comments, generally around instagram-is-doing-something-bad posts. The verge posted this article and there were some pro pixelfed comments that have been removed.

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There is still one comment, which is a simple link to the .org. But I don’t see why the comments were removed unless they were auto flagged as bot-spam perhaps. Yet other comments pimping and linking to other options remain.

Links to other

Makes me a bit grumpy, with all the work Dansup has been putting in.

  • QuentinCallaghanA
    5·
    2 years ago

    Might as well send an email to the person who wrote the article and promote PixelFed.

    • _edOP
      2·
      2 years ago

      That’s an idea, though I imagine a service with ~ 90,000 accounts wouldn’t be newsworthy.