Pixelfed Users - Thoughts so far?

Phegan, 9 months ago

It’s fine.

pewgar_seemsimandroid, 9 months ago

it’s fine my app that i ise is fedilab

DaniAlexander, 9 months ago

I really like it. Feels quiet atm but I'm okay with that atm

DaniAlexander, 9 months ago

I really like it. Feels quiet atm but I'm okay with that atm

DaniAlexander, 9 months ago

I really like it. Feels quiet atm but I'm okay with that atm

1984, 9 months ago

I have never used Instagram either. But something similar where you can be semi-anonymous could be interesting i guess. Depends on the content. If it’s about showing off and being influencers, I’m not interested.

Corgana, 9 months ago

I think it’s absolutely excellent and considerably more polished than projects like Lemmy, the only problem is that nobody I know is on there!

RickRussell_CA, 9 months ago

I like pixelfed.social, but I'm an admittedly "lite" user of Instagram, don't really post my own stuff, just use it to find interesting photos. It's been good for that.

argentcorvid, 9 months ago

As consumer (don’t really post) I have no idea how to find follows. I don’t have Instagram to bootstrap from like did with Twitter and mastodon.

krimsonbun, 9 months ago

I don’t like it much. It’s slow and a pain to use. The main developer keeps on starting new projects instead of improving the one’s they already have.

franzcoz, 9 months ago

It promised instagram impot, but I have bee ryin for weeks and nothing :(

QuazarOmega, 9 months ago

Have you reached out to who is hosting your instance to ask (if it’s not you)?

franzcoz, 9 months ago

Yes, as I understand it’s the main instance

baronvonj, 9 months ago

I think it’s worked well for what it aims to be. I’ve mostly used the official app (Android) but also tried out Fedilabs. My main complaint isn’t really for the Pixelfed, but rather in Fediverse itself needing me to have a different account on each platform, rather than a Fediverse account I can use from all platforms. I know I can technically do a SAML login to Pixelfed with my Mastodon account, haven’t tried it yet, but I assume it wouldn’t work like truly using a common account. Like I imagine posts on Pixelfed aren’t there linked as posts my Mastodon profile.

resurrexia, 9 months ago

It just makes a new pixelfed.social handle if you do that

baronvonj, 9 months ago

Yeah that’s what I figured. I went a read the original blog post and when that said it even copies all your follows it was pretty clear it’s not using a single unified account.

jeanofthedead, 9 months ago

I’m unable to upload a single photo from the TestFlight beta on iOS 16.6. Gives me an error every time.

The Instagram archive upload has a set limit and since my archive is larger than the limit, it times out and reloads the desktop webpage every time I try to upload it.

Deregon, 9 months ago

Been running my own instance for a couple months now, just for me and my friends, so that they would stop sharing private pictures on platforms that would process/sell the data. But, as always when it comes to new, privacy-respecting tools, I’m having the hardest time making them move to the platform, despite the fact that the Pixelfed instance itself has been running smoothly.

Gormadt, 9 months ago

Any tips on setting it up for such a purpose?

I was thinking of doing something similar for my friends and I

Deregon, 8 months ago

I used YunoHost to set it up.

My first idea was to have the instance locked behind the YunoHost auth, since Pixelfed supports LDAP.

But I could not manage to make the LDAP work, so I went instead with a public instance that has ActivityPub disabled and all posts set to “Followers Only”.

People could also set each of their accounts to “Private”, but the follow requests were not working when I first set up the instance.

otter, 9 months ago

I’m still just waiting for a Canadian instance to move my account to 😄