The PixelFed app is in TestFlight on iOS at the moment but the I believe it should be a full release in the near future according to the dev (@dansup).
I’ve been using Vernissage for the photos-only view and Tusker for a more instagram view. Tusker seems pretty good, multiple accounts can be used, etc.
Never had an instagram account, but I have been uploading pictures to PixelFed. Nobody really comments or likes my stuff, but it’s more about curating some photos online that I can send someone a link to for fun on occasion.
This is only true if the mastodon instance in question has gotten copies of the post—if nobody on an instance follows your pixelfed account, and nobody on an instance follows an account that boosts posts from your pixelfed account, then (with a few exceptions) the post won’t appear in that instance’s Federated feed or that instance’s hashtag feeds
I signed up for it and have Pixelfed installed on my Android phone. I was planning to use it as a replacement for Imgur when I need a quick image hosting site to share a picture from.
No. All instances I’ve tried over the years have been dead or full or not accepting new users otherwise.
Since Flickr was killed, I’ve been hoping to find a working photo community or even just some gallery space. Or even a static generator I could use. Haven’t found anything usable.
pixelfed.social and metapixl.com both have active communities and open signups right now. Main reason to use metapixl.com afaik is larger file sizes are allowed (26mb vs 15mb)
edit: and you can upload 20 images to a collection on metapixl.com, instead of only 10 on pixelfed.social
also metapixl.com is based in Finland, and has some specific rules regarding content illegal in Germany etc, so they probably drop ban hammers on certain groups of abusive people harder than other servers might.
however, found the main trade-off is that pixelfed.social gives you 7GB of storage, while metapixl.com gives you only 4GB.
but be aware that some details are outdated, and you won’t know the actual file sizes allowed, number of photos in a collection, etc, until you’re on that server’s main page under the “About” tab. For instance metapixl is listed there as allowing 50 photos per collection, but that was downgraded to only 20.
That’s so cool that you can import your photos from instagram. I’m always impressed by things like that. And yeah. It seems like Instagram is 95% ads and “Suggested content” or whatever. It’s really frustrating.
That’s true, but that’s no good if it never hits the App Store. How am I to persuade my friends to use it when there are partially complete features and they aren’t going to sign up for TestFlight? (Which is full anyway.)
More of an Apple issue to be honest, when you don’t have a feature complete application it’s very difficult to push past TestFlight if you aren’t ready.
It’s got a strong Web App however that also works incredibly well.
That was really my point. Instead of adding extras. It would be better to finish the basic feature set and then release. If features are never completed because of the distraction of new features then an app will never be released.
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