This is a unique experiment in the Fediverse.
What’s going on?
To explain what’s happening with my account:
I’ve created a new art form.
I don’t mean this in a pretentious “guy in a turtleneck sniffing his own farts” way. I mean, literally, I’ve invented a form of art that hasn’t been done before. And to understand it, you first need to understand what’s happening.
The Backstory
A long time ago, I organized photos into categories and themes for an ARG (alternate reality game) centered around r/Sizz. But then Reddit went and enshittified itself, forcing me to abandon the original plan.
From that, I learned a crucial lesson:
- Never depend on an external platform to host my work.
- Always build redundancies so the work can survive.
Keep that in mind—it’s key to what happens next.
The Problem with the Fediverse
I tried migrating the ARG to my personal server, atomicpoet.org, but I hit a wall:
The Fediverse makes it really hard to build an art community, and by extension, an ARG. The platform favors certain topics—politics and tech do well, but art? Not so much.
At first, I was frustrated. But then I had an idea:
What if the same content could look completely different depending on where you view it?
The Breakthrough
Mastodon and Lemmy attract different audiences, which means people interpret the same post in completely different ways. What if I leaned into that?
That’s when I discovered Piefed.
- Its moderation tools gave me exactly what I needed.
- Its masonry-style layout prioritized images over text—perfect for what I was building.
How It Works
On Mastodon, my posts look like scattered poetry, fiction, and chaotic personal musings:
🔗 Example
But on Piefed, those same posts take on an aesthetically unified theme:
🔗 Example
Two completely different experiences—from the exact same content. The way each platform processes posts creates a divergent reality.
The Artform
Think of it like this:
- My personal account = a light beam
- ActivityPub = a prism
- Piefed communities = different “colors” refracting from that prism
Each community on Piefed has its own theme and patterns:
🔗 Lumoura
🔗 Blue
🔗 Dustbloom
🔗 Sizz
Look closely, and you’ll see that these patterns form a larger story—one I’ll eventually compile into multiple books.
The Big Reveal
Instead of making you guess the “game,” I’m telling you upfront: this is how it works.
And none of it would be possible without ActivityPub and the way different platforms interpret content.
@fediverse@lemmy.world
