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Some people think that Pixelfed blocks text-only posts, and that isn't actually true.
We do store them, and you can view them by searching for them, we just never got around to properly implementing them in home feeds.
That is on our todo list, but I need to make it clear that you will not be able to create text-only posts, you will have the ability to see them in your home feed, but they will be hidden by default.
You will be able to limit text posts from specific accounts you follow...
@ak79 That is our goal actually, we do have a Groups/Communities feature that is ripe for refactoring, and will support lemmy/piefed and other reddit type servers in a separate feed!
And we may also make a separate feed for non photo/video media so you can still follow account updates easily, while keeping your main home feed media centric!
Pixelfed is not a microblogging platform, but we can allow people to have more control and visibility.
@dansup hello Dan, if you ever need a software engineer, please hit me up 😉
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@dansup Why not offer some kind of dropdown where the default is "Media" but with the additional option "Text only" to view text only postings.
I'm still dreaming of a platform, where you can have Twitter (Mastodon), Instagram (Pixelfed) Youtube (Peertube) and Reddit (Piefed) in one place. Why the need of limiting yourself by creating multiple accounts on multiple platforms? Why not offer different Views ("All", "Media", "Photos", "Videos", "Text", "Groups") to filter and present the postings?