Instagram alternative Pixelfed now has an app

The platform’s popularity has been surging since Meta announced last week that it would be making significant changes to its content moderation policy. Over the weekend, Pixelfed said its pixelfed.social server was seeing “unprecedented levels of traffic” and that it was working to increase resources.

Pixelfed was also in the news this week, as some users claimed that Meta was randomly blocking links to sites shared on Facebook. According to EngadgetMeta accidentally blocked the Pixelfed link and is currently restoring the post.

Daniel Supernault, founder of Pixelfed, also launched a decentralized version of TikTok called Loops last October. With TikTok banned in the US and the fallout from Meta’s content moderation changes, Pixelfed and Loops offer other options for people to move around.