Flohmarkt is probably the closest thing https://codeberg.org/grindhold/flohmarkt

quick, do your own homework.

it still retains iOS iconography, including the share button.

an incentivised scheme

how about this for an incentive: when you donate money, you help keep the lights on for the instance that you’re using.

you get posts from all connected instances.

you get from Mastodon what you put into it.

It’s dead on there anyway

13 million accounts with 2 million monthly active users beg to differ.

and what service would that be?

there’s PixelDroid https://www.f-droid.org/packages/org.pixeldroid.app/

and like the other person has mentioned, Mastodon clients support Pixelfed accounts as well. Fedilab even offers an optional image-centric layout.

they’ve been pretty clear in the past about their lack of interest in decentralisation.

if you want to see what a federated (although separate from the Fediverse), private messenger looks like, try Matrix.

Will my Firefish posts still be visible and discoverable on Mastodon?

yes, that’s the entire point of the Fediverse.
and regarding emoji reactions, I’m fairly sure they just show as “favourites” on Mastodon.

FFS, I thought we left that thing back on reddit. just add the posts to saved, people…

not sure if you’re aware, but Bluesky isn’t a part of the Fediverse.

you get from Mastodon what you put into it.

them trying to hype it up by being invite-only for the longest time probably didn’t help, either.

luckily it doesn’t need to overtake anyone, it’s doing its own thing and it works just fine.

click on the post itself, not the icon. it’ll load the entire thread that way.

sure, and then the big company whose sole purpose is to run a service gets bought by another company, and now Gfycat is going to shut down and delete all its content in September. oh, and Imgur, apart from removing NSFW content, will also crack down on anonymous uploads, which likely means bunch of infographics and graphic tutorials being wiped. or Google decides to, you know, do what they’re best at.

wait till you hear what happens when a centralized service goes down.