I don't doubt it. I just wanted to specify that I've had no prior bias one way or another with regard to the service.

Lol, it's federated, you don't post "on Pixelfed" you post on whatever host you're on and maybe that host is federated to lively other hosts

This doesn't feel like a helpful response.

I understand that pixelfed is federated, but I still knew exactly what the commenter meant when they said they posted "on pixelfed". They meant they posted on an instance running the pixelfed software.

It seems like it was effective communication to me, and your correction seems both dismissive and unhelpful.

Yea. And you’re not “on the internet”. It’s a series of nodes that talk with each other and route requests between them. /s

There is no strict technical definition of “on” in this case.

Well. The fact that there is way less photographers on it may help.

Your insta is probably shadowbanned (or whatever nonesensical synonym they’re using nowadays to describe shadowbanning style moderation).