Now that i’m getting used to being in Fedi long term i’ve started looking beyond Mastodon and Lemmy to the other services. And now i’ve started to see that some of the services, like Pixelfed, Friendica and others don’t seem to have a public timeline. Seems specially absurd for Pixelfed since you WANT your photos to be visible to everybody but haven’t found any instance yet that does it (maybe i’m unlucky, dunno). Is there a reason why this happens? Seems counterproductive for people who might or might not want to join the given server, you want to know what you’re getting into.
@jherazob What do you mean?
Pixel fed has a home, local and global timeline as well as an explore page and hashtags following.
All three home, local and global are reverse-chronological with respectively the people/hashtags you follow, the posts from your instances and the posts from all indexed users from other instances. The explore page is to see algorithmic-ally trending posts from local and distant instances.
You can even remotely explore local feeds from a selection of instances
Yes, but get to an instance without an account and all you see is a login page