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And even if it won't, there's still the benefit of some variety in communities so that people can choose.

Eh, it's not like they are going to somehow get better at it without practice...

Some good points to be said. I find the overall argument a bit weak as it is mainly one of user erorr

Thematically adequate typo!

lemmy is dying

[citation needed]

False dichotomy. Lemmy is already usable, and the decentralization is not that high that you can't tell where to post. But if you were posting a more proper form of the question that is not trolling, maintaining a decent level of decentralization is higher priority, as it is one of the foundationally selling attributes of the Fediverse. You can add connecting tissues and UX improvements over that, but if you abandon that you are not too different from Mozilla, and become not too different from the anti-social networks this was born to serve as an alternative to.

No thanks. This is a dark pattern towards centralization. Just go back to reddit.

Exactly! And that's why the choice in the UI is important. My understanding is previous versions of PF at least let your viewers know you offer salads. There's no (good) reason why the very minimum useful version of that can't be maintained. Comaps and OSMand for example are map applications, but they let me know when a given location has an associated Wikipedia article for example. They don't even need to implement something like a Wikipedia Viewer itself; just offer the links. Links are cheap, and are the foundation and backbone of both the internet and of any useful concept of a "fediverse".

so, an old style BBS?

I'd be all in.

Because PixelFed is purposefully hiding the salad option from them. Which is what we are complaining about: it's lying to our potential customers about us. Note that it didn't do that before.

This is great yes and IMO how it should be done. It's not necessary fr eg.: PixelFed to implement themself all the functionality to process forums, videos, cooking recipes, Pokémon boxes, microblogging, macroblogging, nanoblogging, femtoblogging, nanopicturing, macroboosting, etc. Just one: linking (and, well, properly announcing the link is there).

You sly dog you made me open my network tab to see if there actually was an image there! (there is, it was just being blocked because of my uBO setting for fetching remotes).

No, you as a poster in the Fediverse are selling pizzas and salads. PixelFed is "misrepresenting" you, for lack of a better word, by telling people you only sell pizzas. The thing is, it wasn't doing that before. It was purposefully made to hide useful information that was there before. IMO there should be a sticky "this user has other content which is not images" headbar or something. Only removable as an opt-in per account followed, so that it is not possible for people to say that PF purposefully hid information.