Pixelfed has a “stories” feature. It’s only on the website version (no apps) and it’s labeled as “beta”.

I’ve just tested it. You just need to tag the community in the text of your Pixelfed post.

See here: https://pixelfed.social/i/web/post/587303441777627505 and here: https://bolha.forum/post/15364

No. Lemmy (and any other FediVerse service) can be targeted for take over from any corporation. But there’s a few things that prevents from thinks like… Idk, Facebook buying Instagram or Musk buying Twitter:

1. The source code of Lemmy is open. Anyone can just take the code and create another “Lemmy alternative” in case of a buy out.
2. The underlying protocol (Activity Pub) is open too, and managed by W3C (which manages other things like the HTTP protocol). So I think would be very hard for it to highjack to only work for one company.
3. You are right, a company can create or buy an instance or another similar service (and probably will, see Threads from Instagram). But they cannot interfere with the other ones. If the instance you’re in was bought and you don’t like the new owners, you can just create another account in another instance and keep following the same communities and content (because of the protocol I mentioned) and having the same experience. Unlike what happened to closed services like reddit that you cannot follow subreddits from here.

Tl;Dr: we are not free of corporate interest, but we have tools to prevent a corporate dominance.

You know, I’ve seen worse than hate here. I’ve seen apathy.