It's a social network that people could move to and not be on Facebook. Pixelfed is a fediverse photo sharing thing, a direct competitor (well sort of) to Instagram.
It's also got a lot of prior art on the underlying protocol so they can save money on inventing their own back end.
It also has a preexisting userbase, so even if most people fediblock it they still have some network effects and don't have yo stand it up from nothing.
flabberghaster wrote
It's a social network that people could move to and not be on Facebook. Pixelfed is a fediverse photo sharing thing, a direct competitor (well sort of) to Instagram.
It's also got a lot of prior art on the underlying protocol so they can save money on inventing their own back end.
It also has a preexisting userbase, so even if most people fediblock it they still have some network effects and don't have yo stand it up from nothing.
Lots of reasons.