hmm, is it intentional that #pixelfed comments are so hard to actually see? had a short discussion with another pixelfed user under one of my pics today, could not see my own responses from pixelfed at all. only could see all comments via mastodon
Muy chulo lo del #portfolio que ofrece ahora @pixelfed. Puedes seleccionar hasta 100 fotos de tu perfil de #pixelfed y que se muestren en un portfolio.
Por ejemplo, el de @casatiajulia con unas poquitas fotos queda así (tengo que ir publicando más cosas, para refinarlo)
It's cool how it works once you've gotten the hang of having to boost from Pixelfed to make it show up in the associated Mastodon account which you can then boost again from an actual Mastodon account. You can post once and not have to fill in info, alt text, etc.
I'm not using apps (not a big mobile user), i'm using Librewolf on a linux desktop OS and once i committed to only having one tab of each open it's less confusing and works well.
⚠️ PSA for Admins: Please update your pixelfed instance ASAP
We're dropping support for v0.11.5 and below in the next #pixelfedApp release and making v0.11.6 the min version for inclusion in to the https://pixelfed.org/servers directory.
v0.11.8 will be released later this weekend with Post Edit support, and other improvements! #pixelfed#PSA
TIL there's limit to how many people you can follow with #ActivityPub. No one seems to specify what it is, but it could be as low as a couple thousand. I already follow 1.1k!
I had this solution in mind for #Mastodon on #iOS, but I guess its somewhat transferrable to #PixelFed too if you are willing to maintain a list of instances.
Is this normal? I've been unable to use Pixelfed for a few days now. I'm getting this error on both my smartphone and computer - in both Firefox and Brave Browser. This 'No preview available' message is present on all images in my timeline and local timeline, but the global timeline is fine.
I cleared cache, but it is not working? How i can fix this?
Just want to shout out @dansup for being an amazing developer. He literally worked through the night consulting with the community to rework the onboarding flow to center decentralization while still giving new users a simple sign-up option. That's on top of the impressive number of features and fixes released in the last few weeks or dropping in the coming days.
@pixelfed is such a a great project. It looks great, works well, and is an easy IG replacement. He's also built the most beautiful Fediverse app I've seen. I'm sure there's been help along the way as well but he's built the entire thing as a lone developer.
If you haven't checked out #pixelfed yet, you should! If you have and you love it, you should consider supporting his patreon.
I'm glad to see #PixelFed development is coming along nicely. It's not something that I will personally be using, but it's nonetheless a welcome member of the fediverse community. PF fills a niche for many users that cannot be replicated on other fedi software, and the more options available to users, the better the fediverse becomes.
Point blank, a mass Fediblock isn't going to work with #Meta.
The cold truth is that people will use #Barcelona whether it federates or not. Even if it fails, Barcelona will probably have more users out of the gate than almost every project save Mastodon. Hell, it will probably eclipse #Bluesky too.
And even if you convince every server to defederate -- which you won't -- this will not be a PR coup for the Fediverse. Newspaper headlines won't blare "Fediverse successfully resists Meta." Instead, they will probably follow @gruber take with "Open source zealots complain that an open protocol is open."
Again, as I've said countless times, I'm not saying you should federate with Barcelona or any Meta-owned property. If you want, defederate. The joy of the Fediverse is freedom of association.
But a mass Fediblock doesn't solve a few important problems with Meta, and perhaps makes them worse.
The most critical problem is that Meta users need to migrate away from Meta-owned social networks. Until now, a migration path has simply been unfeasible to most. But when Barcelona gets launched, it is possible that many of them will become aware of a greater Fediverse.
How to build that awareness? By interacting with them through services beyond Barcelona.
This approach works. I've interacted with many Mastodon users through services beyond Mastodon, and this has resulted in adoption of other Fediverse software. #Calckey is a case in point.
However, there's a bigger problem concerning Meta: Fediverse replacements for Meta-owned social networks aren't getting mass adoption. And it's not because these apps aren't good.
#Pixelfed is an #Instagram replacement. It is also one of the slickest apps on the Fediverse. Yet, Pixelfed only has 150,000 registered accounts.
#Friendica is a #Facebook replacement. It's been around since 2010. It is a mature product that does many things very well, but Friendica only has 17,000 registered accounts.
The software is great but we are failing to effectively market the Fediverse beyond Mastodon. Now I'm trying my darnedest to change this, and so are many people. But facts are facts. Fediverse alternatives to Meta are a blip on the radar.
Refusing to federate with Barcelona won't change this. How do I know?
Because we don't federate now, and the status quo remains intact.
Meanwhile, Meta is practically gifting Pixelfed and Friendica an opportunity for federation, and it would be foolish to not consider broader implications.
How is it that more people aren't considering this opportunity?
Dare I say that most people -- including devs -- suffer from myopia concerning what the Fediverse is. The Fediverse is not Mastodon, and it is wrong to view the Fediverse solely through the eyes of Mastodon.
And I'll go further: by focusing Barcelona on text, I suspect that Meta is likewise making the same mistake of viewing the Fediverse as a "Twitter killer".
What they may not be considering is that the Fediverse might be a "Meta killer" too. And connecting Barcelona to the Fediverse is opening a can of worms Meta hasn't entirely considered yet.
If Barcelona is indeed text-based, what will happen when a Barcelona user encounters Pixelfed and asks, "Why does this post show reels? And why can't I do the same?"
Believe me, this is the kind of content that triggers migration.
We need to think bigger than Fediblock. Yes, for your own mental health and safety, you may not want to federate with Barcelona. However, there needs to also be a means for Barcelona users to encounter content outside Barcelona.
Perhaps there needs to be "lobby" servers that help Barcelona users enter the greater Fediverse -- helping them make the switch beyond Meta.
I did a little work on this today, it's a simple web page to show some of the #fediverse.
I've included what I know, #mastodon#pixelfed#akkoma#diaspora#calckey
without a lot of text. If you know of other active apps that should be here, let me know.
When you talk about #Instagram here on Mastodon (or anywhere in the fediverse) have you actually spent much time on Instagram? Because #Pixelfed is only like Instagram in the most basic sense. Instagram is mostly populated with people selling products, services or themselves. Instagram is like a tame version of #TikTok. If federated platforms begin to look like these places I personally will drop them.
✨ Pixelfed Places, a feature that allows you to tag your post with a specific location.
We've heard you, and we're working to support any location or place!
We're also adding places search support so you can more easily browse places, and drafting a FEP so other projects can federate this location data like we do.
The recent Post Edit feature supports Places, allowing you to add or edit a location on your Pixelfed posts ⚡ #pixelfed#places
#MastIndia : is it possible for people still on #Bigsocial (such as instagram) to try and get the indian LGBTQ+ community pages on there to also set up pages on #pixelfed and #mastodon and help them understand the #fedi ?
Anche #pixelfed segue #mastodon e nell'app ufficiale consiglierà ai nuovi arrivati l'istanza ammiraglia di proprietà dello sviluppatore!
Questo permetterà ai nuovi arrivati di iscriversi senza barriere e ai proprietari dei progetti di poter gestire la più grande community di riferimento che diventerà sempre più grande anche per contrastare l'arrivo di colossi come mozilla e meta nel fediverso.
Questo ovviamente apre una nuova era verso un #fediverso meno decentralizzato.