Decentralized Instagram alternative Pixelfed launches mobile apps (techcrunch.com)
from Sunshine@lemmy.ca to fediverse@lemmy.world on 14 Jan 18:40
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finley@lemm.ee on 14 Jan 18:57 next collapse

I was a member of the beta, and one thing that app really needs is a dark mode.

cyborganism@lemmy.ca on 14 Jan 19:20 next collapse

I hope they also add a feature for short video clips.

tisktisk@piefed.social on 14 Jan 19:38 next collapse

loops.video integration wen?

cyborganism@lemmy.ca on 14 Jan 19:44 next collapse

oooooOOOOOoooo!!! I didn’t even know about this. But yes.

Zachariah@lemmy.world on 14 Jan 20:26 collapse

you gotta keep ’em separated

tisktisk@piefed.social on 14 Jan 21:09 next collapse

Hey, man, you talkin' back to me?

sorghum@sh.itjust.works on 14 Jan 21:09 next collapse

Hey! Man you disrespectin’ me?

JudahBenHur@lemm.ee on 14 Jan 23:29 collapse

did you know the singer for the offspring came up with that line when he was working in lab- he was making petri dishes and you make them hot and then cool them to a certain temperature… so he was trying to wrap up and the petri dishes weren’t cooling down quickly enough, so he moved them all apart to allow air to flow between them and kept saying “you gotta keep em seperated” in his head, and then used this one riff they had while they were working on the album with that line. come out and play was the last song they made for that album

Zachariah@lemmy.world on 14 Jan 23:46 next collapse

…when the Undertaker threw Mankind off hеll in a cell, and plummeted sixteen feet through an announcer’s table.

FilthyHookerSpit@lemmy.world on 15 Jan 00:46 collapse

I thought this was shit post or copy pasta but I’ll be damned. He did come up with that line while cooling Erlenmeyer flasks.

JudahBenHur@lemm.ee on 15 Jan 02:10 collapse

yeah thats the ones

Ulrich@feddit.org on 14 Jan 20:12 collapse

They’ve had one for a while.

cyborganism@lemmy.ca on 14 Jan 21:32 collapse

I haven’t been able to upload any videos.

madjo@feddit.nl on 14 Jan 22:22 collapse

Keep your reels off Pixelfed please. Use loops.video instead.

Pixelfed is a photo sharing platform

cyborganism@lemmy.ca on 15 Jan 00:44 collapse

You don’t think Pixelfed should have reels?

madjo@feddit.nl on 15 Jan 15:06 collapse

Yes, Pixelfed should 100% definitely not have reels. Reels and videos belong on something like loops.video or Peertube and not on Pixelfed.

cyborganism@lemmy.ca on 15 Jan 19:34 collapse

Then allow users from one platform to use their ID on the other.

In fact, using fediverse social networks made me realize how much I could use a single point of identification for all the services. Like a fediverse passport or SSO.

Carighan@lemmy.world on 15 Jan 22:54 collapse

I think some allow Mastodon login!

cyborganism@lemmy.ca on 16 Jan 03:51 collapse

Yeah you can log-in to Pixelfed with Mastodon. I didn’t see the options for loops.video.

madjo@feddit.nl on 16 Jan 11:58 collapse

That’s still in beta, I’m sure it’s on the backlog

cyborganism@lemmy.ca on 16 Jan 14:13 collapse

I don’t know but that’s what I did.

Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 14 Jan 19:21 next collapse

The screencap in the article looks pretty dark to me? Is there something that needs to be dark that the example pic doesn’t show? Asking as someone that turns everything to dark mode.

chris@lemm.ee on 14 Jan 19:36 collapse

As of now, the iOS app does not have a dark mode. Though, I believe the Android version does.

Ulrich@feddit.org on 14 Jan 19:57 collapse

It doesn’t.

chris@lemm.ee on 14 Jan 20:52 collapse

Weird. I feel like at some point I remember it having a dark mode on one or the other. Wonder when and why it was removed.

Ulrich@feddit.org on 14 Jan 21:11 collapse

It wasn’t removed, there was never an app before.

chris@lemm.ee on 15 Jan 02:57 next collapse

No? Huh, I could have sworn I had downloaded an APK and just assumed it was the beta. Haven’t had an Android in a year, though, so I might just be misremembering or thinking of another app.

AshMeshedUp@lemmy.world on 15 Jan 05:39 collapse

Hi! There was actually an official Pixelfed client in beta before the current one written in react native. And it did have dark mode support as well.

sjmarf@sh.itjust.works on 14 Jan 19:21 next collapse

It has a dark mode now (on iOS, at least. Maybe they’ve got a different codebase for Android)

Edit: Scratch that. Only the login flow has dark mode.

stoly@lemmy.world on 15 Jan 02:04 next collapse

I couldn’t find it in the App Store. How do you get it?

finley@lemm.ee on 15 Jan 02:28 collapse

apps.apple.com/us/app/pixelfed/id1632519816

Here’s the link. Oddly, it doesn’t show up for me either when I search for it.

stoly@lemmy.world on 15 Jan 05:34 collapse

Thanks!!

[deleted] on 15 Jan 14:25 collapse

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TheFederatedPipe@fedia.io on 14 Jan 19:06 next collapse

I just installed and is pretty neat. Truly a photo first social media.

jagged_circle@feddit.nl on 15 Jan 14:17 next collapse

Great. Then all the people who just post photos on Lemmy can gtfo

TheFederatedPipe@fedia.io on 15 Jan 16:02 next collapse

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.

ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net on 15 Jan 16:17 collapse
TheFederatedPipe@fedia.io on 15 Jan 16:05 collapse
NineMileTower@lemmy.world on 14 Jan 19:22 next collapse

That’s odd. I’ve had the app for like 3 months.

M137@lemmy.world on 14 Jan 20:18 next collapse

The beta, not sure how you missed that.

NineMileTower@lemmy.world on 14 Jan 20:25 collapse

Damn, you are right. Now that you mention it, I did signup for the beta through their website. I just forgot.

breadcat@sh.itjust.works on 14 Jan 21:35 collapse

its been on fdroid since last october, this is just the first official release on gplay and apple

NineMileTower@lemmy.world on 14 Jan 23:15 collapse

That’s probably where I got it then.

Add me! pxlmo.com/jakelec

atro_city@fedia.io on 14 Jan 23:06 collapse

It's as a reaction to the news about TikTok possibly being sold and people jumping to "Red Book", the other Chinese platform. Maybe some people will read the TechCrunch article and consider Pixelfed.

NineMileTower@lemmy.world on 14 Jan 23:14 next collapse

I like pixel fed, but like all federated websites, it doesn’t have a lot of content yet.

HMU bb pxlmo.com/jakelec

atro_city@fedia.io on 15 Jan 08:32 collapse

Those are some nice pictures! Are they all yours? Btw, I do wonder if it's possible to comment on pictures there from here @jakelec

Just subbed. Maybe new pictures will pop up in my feed.

NineMileTower@lemmy.world on 15 Jan 12:53 collapse

All mine

wheeldawg@sh.itjust.works on 15 Jan 16:40 collapse

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.

cyborganism@lemmy.ca on 14 Jan 19:42 next collapse

Yeah I tried the beta before. I just got a new smartphone so I’m happy it’s available I the app store.

avidamoeba@lemmy.ca on 14 Jan 19:57 next collapse

Is Pixelfed an appropriate place to upload an image to share on Lemmy / Mastodon?

meldrik@lemmy.wtf on 14 Jan 20:04 next collapse

It’s doable, but you might as well just upload it here. But for smaller albums, it would be a good idea.

avidamoeba@lemmy.ca on 14 Jan 20:06 next collapse

What’s the intended use case for Pixelfed?

meldrik@lemmy.wtf on 14 Jan 20:09 next collapse
RmDebArc_5@sh.itjust.works on 14 Jan 20:10 next collapse

It acts as a Instagram replacement (but is actually about photos and not videos)

Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io on 14 Jan 20:23 collapse

loops.video is aiming for the video segment. Tho' it seems like one app for pix and vids would be nifty.

RmDebArc_5@sh.itjust.works on 14 Jan 21:35 collapse

Pixelfed does videos to, and I think federation with loops is planned

Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io on 15 Jan 15:58 collapse

I hadn't tried vids! Ok, it could get a whole lot weirder, and/or more informative.

Blaze@feddit.org on 14 Jan 20:11 next collapse

Instagram replacement rather than Imgur

For that there is catbox.moe and imgbb.com

QuazarOmega@lemy.lol on 14 Jan 23:42 collapse

Pixelfed can be used as image hoster likewise, those 2 you mention are proprietary, so if one cared about that, they might prefer Pixelfed

Microw@lemm.ee on 14 Jan 20:19 collapse

Whatever the usecase for Instagram is

Shatur@lemmy.ml on 15 Jan 08:58 collapse

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.

MxRemy@piefed.social on 14 Jan 20:33 next collapse

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.

umbraroze@lemmy.world on 15 Jan 09:26 collapse

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.

ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net on 15 Jan 16:18 collapse

I wonder if they were thinking like how before Reddit had image galleries, people would use imgur

wise_pancake@lemmy.ca on 14 Jan 20:24 next collapse

I’m a little underwhelmed by the iOS app itself, but the content is great

Hopefully Pixelfed continues to bloom into a solid community!

The app doesn’t really feel native, and doesn’t have features like clicking to enlarge an image. If it’s open source I’d look into helping though

skeezix@lemmy.world on 15 Jan 19:48 collapse

I don’t know. Pictures of people’s dog and what they’re eating for lunch. It’s like subscribing to getty images.

veganpizza69@lemmy.world on 14 Jan 20:33 next collapse

how are they paying for the hosting?

Fitik@fedia.io on 14 Jan 20:35 collapse

Donations and NLNet grant, you can support Pixelfed yourself

https://pixelfed.org/support-our-project

FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 14 Jan 20:39 next collapse

The Impressia for Pixelfed app has been serving me well the past 6 months.

Sunshine@lemmy.ca on 14 Jan 21:07 collapse

I was wondering about that app as I saw the listing. I’m glad someone likes it.

garretble@lemmy.world on 14 Jan 21:04 next collapse

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.

xapr@lemmy.sdf.org on 15 Jan 18:47 collapse

People are saying that the servers are overloaded at the moment from all the new people trying it out.

garretble@lemmy.world on 15 Jan 19:23 collapse

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.

xapr@lemmy.sdf.org on 15 Jan 19:40 next collapse

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.

mrnarwall@lemmy.world on 15 Jan 23:24 collapse

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

aliser@lemmy.world on 14 Jan 21:10 next collapse

once again tried to register. this time, the biggest instance doesn’t even load.

pelespirit@sh.itjust.works on 14 Jan 21:56 next collapse

It might help to pick a smaller instance.

little_beefy@lemm.ee on 14 Jan 22:44 next collapse

pixey.org is a good one to try

ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net on 15 Jan 16:19 collapse

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.

fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com on 14 Jan 23:01 next collapse

No dark mode, no use.

corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca on 15 Jan 00:59 next collapse

If all the things in the work queue, you’re balking on a COLOUR SCHEME?

That’s like stopping the construction crew for using the wrong colour work boots, man!

Lemminary@lemmy.world on 15 Jan 02:49 next collapse

you’re balking on a COLOUR SCHEME

How can I not?? Dx

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Nalivai@lemmy.world on 15 Jan 06:31 next collapse

It’s more like stopping the construction crew from painting your house a colour you hate. Which sounds more reasonable

rami@ani.social on 15 Jan 09:10 next collapse

light mode gives me migraines dude. it’s more important than just a color preference.

Carighan@lemmy.world on 15 Jan 09:17 next collapse

No dark mode, no use.

BTW, work boot color is absolutely regulated depending on context. For example here in Germany, if you work in sterile or food-related industries then shoes are to be issued and used with a color that cannot inherently hide stains by the material you’re working with, to prevent accidentally carrying contaminations into other clean zones.

So yes, you would stop the construction crew for using the wrong color work boots.

heavydust@sh.itjust.works on 15 Jan 09:34 next collapse

Same for medical software. Green MUST be an approved green color, and same for red, as the wrong color can give wrong advice and may kill people.

spujb@lemmy.cafe on 15 Jan 15:00 collapse

CC @fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com

While you may be right about the boots thing that doesn’t stop me from thinking your obstinacy is a bit of a reach and looks embarrassing XD

fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com on 15 Jan 17:59 collapse

While my comment was certainly controversial, the number of up-votes from users in the Fediverse means it shouldn’t be ignored, either.

Luckily embarrassment is controlled by the person feeling it, and I seem to have a severe lack of that gene 😆

spujb@lemmy.cafe on 15 Jan 18:17 collapse

LOL XD Jokes aside it’s interesting how the dark mode thing becomes more of a symbol than anything in certain communities. Obviously the science shows pros and cons both ways, but there’s an implicit in group/out group about it. I might compare it to turning off your autocaps on Tumblr.

MITM0@lemmy.world on 15 Jan 09:27 collapse

No it isn’t, if a modern app doesn’t have dark-mode to protect your eyes Then it’s a health-hazard

frayedpickles@lemmy.cafe on 15 Jan 14:45 next collapse

Thats nonsense

Literally spent 30 seconds on a Google before you start spewing lies like this.

There’s a variety of reasons to prefer dark mode, but spreading fake health information isn’t valid.

MITM0@lemmy.world on 15 Jan 14:49 collapse

I spent reading books, before YOU started smearing a well-know fact as a lie It’s connected with causing myopia & eye-strains

Your precious google won’t tell you that (Or maybe you simply clicked the first link that confirmed your bias)

frayedpickles@lemmy.cafe on 15 Jan 15:17 collapse

Fine, let’s play. Wheres the study you are using as your source?

MITM0@lemmy.world on 15 Jan 15:58 collapse

Pick up an opthalmology book, find it yourself & ask your opthalmology specialist Those are my sources & here’s a website too (do you have the guts to touch grass ?)

I already mentioned it, it’s the same reason why we use blue-light filters & why we use anti-glare screen protectors

But apparently a single “google-search” is enough for you

Carighan@lemmy.world on 15 Jan 23:08 collapse

You really should read pages you want to link. And I say this as a die-hard dark mode user. It’s worrying that you so aggressively attack people get cannot even read the page you link far enough to notice that what you are saying about it is nonsense (like how it has “the same reason”, which of course it doesn’t, as made clear in the article).

Or you know, at least don’t be such a dick. That’s also help a lot!

MITM0@lemmy.world on 16 Jan 04:33 collapse

People who say light-mode is not a hazard are the real dicks

Darker (& warmer) colours do not strain your eyes, why are we debating on this ?? This is well-known

You think I did not read the article ? There are more articles that I can link, but will you read it ? (Also try using your intelligence & realize why I said “same reason”) This is one of the most laymen one I could find. Again it doesn’t really disprove my other point of light-mode being harmful.

[deleted] on 16 Jan 09:19 collapse

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woelkchen@lemmy.world on 15 Jan 18:01 collapse

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Look, someone reported this as misinformation. Too bad me, the active mod here, gets pain in the eyes, sometimes flickering vision, and sometimes what I would describe as sea sickness from staring onto bright white screens. When I have no other choice because work, I invert all screen colors but sometimes correct colors are important.

So yeah, no proper dark mode means it’s a crap app.

MITM0@lemmy.world on 15 Jan 18:07 collapse

It’s common knowledge that dark-mode hurts your eyes less So yeah, these people who reported are people who think their opinions & google-searches are superior to common knowledge

woelkchen@lemmy.world on 15 Jan 18:19 next collapse

There are other vision conditions where people cannot see letters in dark mode that well. Apps and websites should just follow whatever the OS setting is, no matter the motivation of the user. Even if it’s just a matter of taste and not some form of eye sight condition, it’s just as valid.

MITM0@lemmy.world on 15 Jan 18:22 collapse

Agreed, but all apps (especially social media ones) need a dark-mode

Carighan@lemmy.world on 15 Jan 23:03 collapse

[citation needed]

MITM0@lemmy.world on 16 Jan 04:28 collapse

Cuz you said so, why don’t you stare into a bright light & find out

Carighan@lemmy.world on 16 Jan 09:17 collapse

Hold on, are you confusing something being hurting (as in, causing pain and/or pathological damage) with something being exhausting (as in, strains your eyes) with something being annoying?

Because if the three words are used interchangeably in your vocabulary that’d explain a lot of your seemingly random posts in the comments here. They’re not the same (at all) to most people and especially not on a medical level (like that article you yourself provided, there is no medical evidence for non-extreme light sources making a difference in eye health).

zerozaku@lemmy.world on 15 Jan 13:31 next collapse

There are tons of apps which don’t have a dark mode and you are writing off fediverse app just because it doesn’t have it. Fediverse apps should be supported instead being judged harshly.

fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com on 15 Jan 13:54 collapse

And I don’t use them, either. I’m a contributor to multiple Fediverse projects, including Lemmy-based apps and full identity management with ActivityPub. We do not deserve to get held to lower standards if we want the Fediverse to grow, especially when it comes to features that are about things like eye comfort, which can be a mild accessibility issue for some.

Dark mode is a basic necessity in apps today. It’s not a convenience, but a necessity for adoption. There are many people who are going to open the app, then never use it again because of something that’s bog-standard in the libraries and should only take a few hours to work in, which should have been done before an announcement.

So yes, I speak up, because I want this to succeed.

Edit: And yes, I’m very excited to see the growth achieved in the other post. Fantastic news.

@corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca, @'ing you so I’m not responding in two places 😉 I appreciate the work of the team, but it doesnt change the fact that to many, this is a showstopper and I’m pretty surprised it wasn’t considered as a basic UX requirement pre-launch (see other comments in response to you).

woelkchen@lemmy.world on 15 Jan 18:09 collapse

PixelDroid is a client that supports dark mode.

spaduf@slrpnk.net on 17 Jan 17:25 collapse

Pixelix feels a lot more modern and is now on fdroid!

Carighan@lemmy.world on 15 Jan 09:24 next collapse

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.

Microw@lemm.ee on 15 Jan 10:06 next collapse

I’m still on the waitlist. Download link not working sounds weird

sircac@lemmy.world on 15 Jan 18:19 collapse

Wow, I was unaware of this, it looks so promising…

addie@feddit.uk on 15 Jan 12:47 next collapse

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.

😥

needanke@feddit.org on 15 Jan 13:01 next collapse

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.

Gawdl3y@pawb.social on 15 Jan 13:54 collapse

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.

dance_ninja@lemmy.world on 15 Jan 13:46 next collapse

Someone could just start a NSFW version, right?

ryper@lemmy.ca on 15 Jan 14:33 collapse

There’s an “Adult” section in pixelfed.org’s instance list

jagged_circle@feddit.nl on 15 Jan 14:16 next collapse

Fortunately we have PMs, right?

GrammarPolice@lemmy.world on 15 Jan 16:02 next collapse

Are they spying on my chats? How would they know its contents?

mypasswordis1234@lemmy.world on 15 Jan 18:19 collapse

Unless E2EE is implemented - the service owner can see all the messages, as they are stored in plain text.

GrammarPolice@lemmy.world on 15 Jan 18:51 collapse

So there’s no E2EE on pixelfed?

italics2@lemmy.world on 16 Jan 14:26 collapse

pixelfed.org/servers -> Adult 😉

jagged_circle@feddit.nl on 15 Jan 14:18 next collapse

Is that like a federated version of flikr?

surph_ninja@lemmy.world on 15 Jan 14:24 collapse

I think it’s supposed to be like old instagram.

DBosiers@social.vivaldi.net on 15 Jan 14:29 collapse

@surph_ninja old instagram was good as it was.

CaptainHowdy@lemm.ee on 15 Jan 14:45 next collapse

Why is their top instance not compatible? Pixelfed.social gives me errors when I try to auth

Dremor@lemmy.world on 15 Jan 15:27 next collapse

I didn’t get any error. Probably just overwhelmed by new users 😆

JDPoZ@lemmy.world on 15 Jan 17:31 next collapse

Just need to check again later. I had this same error at first.

alekwithak@lemmy.world on 15 Jan 18:08 next collapse

Probably a max exodus from Tiktokers who refuse to use Instagram.

rami@ani.social on 16 Jan 12:12 collapse

id imagine most of those people are on rednote

PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world on 16 Jan 01:04 collapse

It is compatible. You need to jump through the email confirmation hoop before it’ll actually work with the app though. So if your account is new, that’s probably the reason.

Besides that, it could just be the mass influx of new users that are fleeing Instagram.

mypasswordis1234@lemmy.world on 15 Jan 18:22 next collapse

Is this platform from that aggressive guy who has mental problems?

xapr@lemmy.sdf.org on 15 Jan 19:06 collapse

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.

penguinclaw@lemm.ee on 15 Jan 18:55 next collapse

Really enjoying Pixelfed. In fact I have found it’s fairly smooth going replacing Meta apps and Twitter.

Resonosity@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 16 Jan 12:12 next collapse

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

Blakdragon@lemmy.ca on 16 Jan 14:33 collapse

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.