There have been testflights (Apple betas) for the pixelfed app, so it’s in development. Unsure about the quality of 3rd party apps though

Yeah, like pretty much all platforms on the fediverse, they’re not owned by large companies, and don’t try ads or selling user data for profit

Honestly, this is really good to hear! More mainstream accounts will definitely get the fediverse a bit more credibility.

And here’s a bit more from BBC:

The team at BBC Research & Development are researching social technologies and exploring possibilities for the BBC. One part of our work is to establish a BBC presence in the Fediverse.

This is an experiment - we will run it for 6 months, and then look at how much value it has provided, how much work it requires to maintain and then decide whether and how to continue. We’re learning as we go, and we’ll write about what we discover in the hope that it might be useful for others. The BBC will continue its normal social media activity in the usual places.

We’re starting off small with just a handful of accounts from R&D and our colleagues at BBC Radio, but we hope to be adding more accounts from other areas of the BBC soon:

• @BBCRD@social.bbc
  
  

• @BBC5Live@social.bbc
  
  

• @BBCRadio4@social.bbc
  
  

• @BBC_News_Labs@social.bbc
  
  

• @BBCTaster@social.bbc
  
  

• @Connected_Studio@social.bbc
  
  

-https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2023-07-mastodon-distributed-decentralised-fediverse-activitypub

Pixelfed is a federated photo sharing platform similar to instagram, signing in with Mastodon lets you carry over who you’re following on Mastodon.
So I wouldn’t say it’s too important, but I thought it belonged here.

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I still don’t think it will be very prevalent though. I’ve been using Kbin for quite a while now, and I have not once really used the Microblogging feature, just because it’s tucked away in a separate tab, and it’s not really what I use Kbin for

The feed present on Kbin and Lemmy that delivers content that is “hot” is still an algorithm, it just isn’t a hyper-specific one like you’d see on Tik Tok

A big similarity being Twitch and Reddit don’t create the content, they rely on users of the platform. Hope this becomes a message that users can’t be expendable