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A comment on Instagram is threatening legal action against Pixelfed. Parent comment

Re:Instagram is threatening legal action against Pixelfed by jhfrjn on Thursday December 29, 2022 @10:55AM (#34173882)
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
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Re:Instagram is threatening legal action against Pixelfed by ncallaway on Thursday December 29, 2022 @11:05AM (#34174011)
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.

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Re:Instagram is threatening legal action against Pixelfed by ViViDboarder on Thursday December 29, 2022 @12:19PM (#34174999)
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.

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