It looks like the recommended Pixelfed instance, pixelfed.social, is running an outdated version of the platform. Aka the instance most new users will login to, and the one I created my account on last year. I guess I could make an account elsewhere, but meh. Hopefully they get that sorted
this post was submitted on 14 Jan 2025
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I'm really interested in trying pixelfed, but the 15 character username limit is really restrictive. I don't want to sign up with a name that doesn't match the handle I already use on instagram and other related places. They have a github issue for it, but it there's no indication of when it might actually be changed.
Really enjoying Pixelfed. In fact I have found it's fairly smooth going replacing Meta apps and Twitter.
I was a member of the beta, and one thing that app really needs is a dark mode.
~~It has a dark mode now (on iOS, at least. Maybe they’ve got a different codebase for Android)~~
Edit: Scratch that. Only the login flow has dark mode.
I hope they also add a feature for short video clips.
loops.video integration wen?
you gotta keep ’em separated
did you know the singer for the offspring came up with that line when he was working in lab- he was making petri dishes and you make them hot and then cool them to a certain temperature.. so he was trying to wrap up and the petri dishes weren't cooling down quickly enough, so he moved them all apart to allow air to flow between them and kept saying "you gotta keep em seperated" in his head, and then used this one riff they had while they were working on the album with that line. come out and play was the last song they made for that album
I thought this was shit post or copy pasta but I'll be damned. He did come up with that line while cooling Erlenmeyer flasks.
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Absolutely NO sexuality explicit content. This includes, but not limited to, images/videos/chat around sexual acts. There are other places on the internet for this.
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Seems fair. There are many places for erotic/porn content on the web. And for a federated network it is good to not force instance owners to manage avoiding the hosting of nudity by federating it.
Nudity isn't inherently sexual, and they pointedly have not mentioned it in the quoted text. It sounds like only explicit sexual content is forbidden, not nudity.
I do think even this is an overreach for a federated network, though, assuming Pixelfed is enforcing this on all instances (is that even possible?). It should be on the instance owners to make that decision. I couldn't find where the quoted text is sourced from, however.
Someone could just start a NSFW version, right?
Are they spying on my chats? How would they know its contents?
Unless E2EE is implemented - the service owner can see all the messages, as they are stored in plain text.
So there's no E2EE on pixelfed?
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Why is their top instance not compatible? Pixelfed.social gives me errors when I try to auth
It is compatible. You need to jump through the email confirmation hoop before it’ll actually work with the app though. So if your account is new, that’s probably the reason.
Besides that, it could just be the mass influx of new users that are fleeing Instagram.
I didn't get any error. Probably just overwhelmed by new users 😆
Probably a max exodus from Tiktokers who refuse to use Instagram.
id imagine most of those people are on rednote
Just need to check again later. I had this same error at first.
No dark mode, no use.
PixelDroid is a client that supports dark mode.
Pixelix feels a lot more modern and is now on fdroid!
There are tons of apps which don't have a dark mode and you are writing off fediverse app just because it doesn't have it. Fediverse apps should be supported instead being judged harshly.
And I don't use them, either. I'm a contributor to multiple Fediverse projects, including Lemmy-based apps and full identity management with ActivityPub. We do not deserve to get held to lower standards if we want the Fediverse to grow, especially when it comes to features that are about things like eye comfort, which can be a mild accessibility issue for some.
Dark mode is a basic necessity in apps today. It's not a convenience, but a necessity for adoption. There are many people who are going to open the app, then never use it again because of something that's bog-standard in the libraries and should only take a few hours to work in, which should have been done before an announcement.
So yes, I speak up, because I want this to succeed.
Edit: And yes, I'm very excited to see the growth achieved in the other post. Fantastic news.
@corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca, @'ing you so I'm not responding in two places 😉 I appreciate the work of the team, but it doesnt change the fact that to many, this is a showstopper and I'm pretty surprised it wasn't considered as a basic UX requirement pre-launch (see other comments in response to you).
how are they paying for the hosting?
Donations and NLNet grant, you can support Pixelfed yourself
I just installed and is pretty neat. Truly a photo first social media.
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On that note, has anyone here gotten into the Surf (the Flipboard thing) beta? I got in, but the download link does not work, but from what I understand that's supposed to turn into a whole-federation browser starting with the microblogging sites (Mastodon + Bluesky + Threads), so I wonder whether they'll add support for Pixelfed et al in the future.
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I have a Pixelfed account and have tried the app.
But I can't actually make posts using it. Don't know where the hiccup is.
People are saying that the servers are overloaded at the moment from all the new people trying it out.
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Is Pixelfed an appropriate place to upload an image to share on Lemmy / Mastodon?
It’s doable, but you might as well just upload it here. But for smaller albums, it would be a good idea.
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