@pixelfed the import process is frankly painful. Constant fails and slow. Any suggestions? I've been trying to migrate from Instagram to Pixelfed for a week and only managed to move 136 photos out of 500+
@pixelfed a lot of nay sayers here, and while i understand their reservations, and agree with the idealism. ...for a wider reach and adoption, .com is the correct move. it's unfortunately just how the average person views the internet. websites just aren't taken serious or trusted by the greater whole unless they are on a .com domain, wikipedia is not a food example as it is just old enough to be able to continue its existence on .org, but, it's an exception, not the rule.
@pixelfed Are you sure .com is the best TLD? It suggests that this Pixelfed instance is commercial in some way. I think .org or .net would be a better, more accurate choice.
@gmate8 We are using .org for our project website already, it's not commercial but when non tech savvy people think about website urls, .com is the most commonly known, so we think it's a good fit and we're not using it currently.
@pixelfed and there are plenty of popular websites / services using .org just like Wikipedia(.org)! It's the most known online encyclopedia and almost the most know website of all time after Google. I think it should be memorable, and creating pixelfed.com could hurt the whole Pixelfed project, because those, who understand what it means, would assume it's commercial, and overall it'd create false information about Pixelfed and the Fediverse. Don't do misinfo, please.
@pixelfed When you say "migrate" does that mean migrating just followers or also migrating images, like you've done from Instagram? I'm very interested in this, but I've uploaded so many images to a specific instance, and find it hard to move away if I must manually upload them all again.
Appreciate any info you might be able to share and thanks for all your hard work! :blob_cat_heart:
@pixelfed Do what you have to do of course, but .com means it's a commercial service and afaik Pixelfed is not. Therefore .social or .net or .org are more suitable.
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