Yesterday Vernissage for Pixelfed had its anniversary, and today I wanted to introduce a new app in the fediverse: Vernissage. It is a platform for photographers with photos at the center, with a clean and minimalist interface. The official instance is available here: https://vernissage.photos. Currently, the platform is in the testing phase, so registration is still closed. We will publish invitation codes here soon.
@vernissage so if I understand, it’s connected to other fediverse apps (so we see my PixelFed account on the screenshots), but it has its own server software, different from PixelFed, right?
@nhoizey Exactly, the server software is different and the web client is different (created with totally different technology but with ActivityPub protocol support).
Your photos are displayed on this new server (vernissage.photos) because someone who following you boost your photos, and this account is being followed by someone on the vernissage.photos server. Fediverse 😉.
@anthonyvardiz Vernissage for Pixelfed will always be a client supporting Pixelfed. It is possible that I will change its name at some point in the future (to avoid confusion).
@anthonyvardiz I don't know that yet. It seems to be doable. The only thing I might have a problem with is downloading comments. Do you think it would be a good functionality even without comments?
@vernissage Yeah I wouldn’t mind not being able to transfer comments. If I can’t export from Pixelfed and import to Vernissage, I’ll just re-upload all my stuff from Pixelfed manually anyway.
@anthonyvardiz@vernissage might be worth waiting for the data portability task force to finish their initial work, but I think it'd totally be possible to copy reply collections & just make it clear the reply was addressed to the moved account.
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