once again tried to register. this time, the biggest instance doesn’t even load.
pixey.org is a good one to try
Rough.
I wonder how easy it is to spin up your own instance. Or course, that’s out of reach for most non-technical folks.
It might help to pick a smaller instance.
Is Pixelfed an appropriate place to upload an image to share on Lemmy / Mastodon?
I wish we could have multiple photos in posts here. Yes, we can put other photos in the description, but it would be nice to view all of them without opening the post.
What’s the intended use case for Pixelfed?
Whatever the usecase for Instagram is
It acts as a Instagram replacement (but is actually about photos and not videos)
loops.video is aiming for the video segment. Tho’ it seems like one app for pix and vids would be nifty.
Pixelfed does videos to, and I think federation with loops is planned
I hadn’t tried vids! Ok, it could get a whole lot weirder, and/or more informative.
Instagram replacement rather than Imgur
For that there is https://catbox.moe/ and https://imgbb.com/
Pixelfed can be used as image hoster likewise, those 2 you mention are proprietary, so if one cared about that, they might prefer Pixelfed
Well that’s the neat part, you don’t! If you post on Pixelfed you’re already on Mastodon.
…I suppose you can reshare it if you want. Me, I just point people to my Pixelfed account on my Mastodon profile and vice versa.
I wonder if they were thinking like how before Reddit had image galleries, people would use imgur
I’ve been doing that exact thing, but only as long as the images would be Instagram-worthy in the first place. Not just temporary junk. I figure it’s probably more optimized for picture storage, since that’s the whole point right? Plus then I get it two places instead of one!
If you use the raw media link itself instead of the link to the post, it displays on Lemmy exactly the same as if you’d uploaded it here in the first place. So that’s nice.
On that note, has anyone here gotten into the Surf (the Flipboard thing) beta? I got in, but the download link does not work, but from what I understand that’s supposed to turn into a whole-federation browser starting with the microblogging sites (Mastodon + Bluesky + Threads), so I wonder whether they’ll add support for Pixelfed et al in the future.
I’m still on the waitlist. Download link not working sounds weird
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I think it’s supposed to be like old instagram.
@surph_ninja old instagram was good as it was.
Absolutely NO sexuality explicit content. This includes, but not limited to, images/videos/chat around sexual acts. There are other places on the internet for this.
😥
Someone could just start a NSFW version, right?
There’s an “Adult” section in pixelfed.org’s instance list
Seems fair. There are many places for erotic/porn content on the web. And for a federated network it is good to not force instance owners to manage avoiding the hosting of nudity by federating it.
Nudity isn’t inherently sexual, and they pointedly have not mentioned it in the quoted text. It sounds like only explicit sexual content is forbidden, not nudity.
I do think even this is an overreach for a federated network, though, assuming Pixelfed is enforcing this on all instances (is that even possible?). It should be on the instance owners to make that decision. I couldn’t find where the quoted text is sourced from, however.
https://pixelfed.org/servers -> Adult 😉
Are they spying on my chats? How would they know its contents?
Unless E2EE is implemented - the service owner can see all the messages, as they are stored in plain text.
So there’s no E2EE on pixelfed?
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Really enjoying Pixelfed. In fact I have found it’s fairly smooth going replacing Meta apps and Twitter.
I was wondering about that app as I saw the listing. I’m glad someone likes it.
I have a Pixelfed account and have tried the app.
But I can’t actually make posts using it. Don’t know where the hiccup is.
People are saying that the servers are overloaded at the moment from all the new people trying it out.
I wish there was an easy way to know which servers are getting hammered more than others.
I can easily make a post to my server via the website, but the app was giving me trouble, as an example. That’s why I wonder where the hiccup is/was. Both the website and app are just interfaces to get data to a server, so if one doesn’t work I’d assume the other doesn’t too. But I dunno.
Edit: After writing this I went back and tried posting from the app again. It finally worked! I guess things have settled down.
For sure.
That’s interesting that you were able to post via the website but not the app. It’s possible that you were lucky with the website being one of the requests that the server was able to handle, or perhaps the website and app use different pathways and the app pathway was more congested?
Good to hear it worked eventually.
My guess, as a cloud developer, there may be a bottleneck at their authentication, or session management. Your web browser has probably been signed in for a while. I’m guessing your app hasn’t been able to get past that point, and is stuck in the bottleneck
It looks like the recommended Pixelfed instance, pixelfed.social, is running an outdated version of the platform. Aka the instance most new users will login to, and the one I created my account on last year. I guess I could make an account elsewhere, but meh. Hopefully they get that sorted
how are they paying for the hosting?
Donations and NLNet grant, you can support Pixelfed yourself
Yeah I tried the beta before. I just got a new smartphone so I’m happy it’s available I the app store.
I just installed and is pretty neat. Truly a photo first social media.
Wanted to add, I recently tried #pixelix for #pixelfed, and I might actually like this app better that the official.
https://app.pixelix.social/ https://github.com/daniebeler/pixelix https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.daniebeler.pfpixelix
The beauty of the #openinternet, #freesoftware, #socialweb and #activitypub
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I don’t agree, this actually a good opportunity for #pixelfed to support #groups so people who want their post to reach a larger audience can choose a magazine/community to post.
That’s odd. I’ve had the app for like 3 months.
Damn, you are right. Now that you mention it, I did signup for the beta through their website. I just forgot.
its been on fdroid since last october, this is just the first official release on gplay and apple
That’s probably where I got it then.
Add me! https://pxlmo.com/jakelec
I’m still trying to figure out why anybody uses ANY software of Chinese origin.
But all it needs to be is “fun” I guess. People literally don’t think past that. Then they all do the surprised Pikachu face when something bad happens.
I’ve always hated TikTok, and avoided it like the plague. I’m not convinced it’s a whole psyop or anything, but my trust of it is basically negative.
As for government meddling, I’m not sure yet how I feel about it in this case.
I like pixel fed, but like all federated websites, it doesn’t have a lot of content yet.
HMU bb https://pxlmo.com/jakelec
All mine
I’m really interested in trying pixelfed, but the 15 character username limit is really restrictive. I don’t want to sign up with a name that doesn’t match the handle I already use on instagram and other related places. They have a github issue for it, but it there’s no indication of when it might actually be changed.
Is this platform from that aggressive guy who has mental problems?
I just read all that along with the “dossier” they compiled and it seemed pretty weak in my view. Yeah, the guy sounds a little bit passive-aggressive, but I think “mental problems” is way too strong an evaluation. That dossier is almost exclusively one-sided too, as in, we only see his posts, and not the context of what he was responding to. Many many people could be made to look bad if only their responses were posted without context. This seems like the worse kind of Fedidrama. I wish I could have the time I spent reading that back.
