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[–] finley@lemm.ee 141 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (13 children)

I was a member of the beta, and one thing that app really needs is a dark mode.

[–] sjmarf 24 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

~~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.

[–] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 week ago (11 children)

I hope they also add a feature for short video clips.

[–] tisktisk@piefed.social 32 points 1 week ago (2 children)

loops.video integration wen?

[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago (3 children)

you gotta keep ’em separated

[–] JudahBenHur@lemm.ee 21 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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

[–] FilthyHookerSpit@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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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[–] tisktisk@piefed.social 10 points 1 week ago

Hey, man, you talkin' back to me?

[–] sorghum 7 points 1 week ago

Hey! Man you disrespectin' me?

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[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 48 points 1 week ago (12 children)
[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

PixelDroid is a client that supports dark mode.

[–] spaduf@slrpnk.net 1 points 6 days ago

Pixelix feels a lot more modern and is now on fdroid!

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[–] TheFederatedPipe@fedia.io 30 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I just installed and is pretty neat. Truly a photo first social media.

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[–] veganpizza69@lemmy.world 29 points 1 week ago (1 children)

how are they paying for the hosting?

[–] Fitik@fedia.io 55 points 1 week ago

Donations and NLNet grant, you can support Pixelfed yourself

https://pixelfed.org/support-our-project

[–] addie@feddit.uk 22 points 1 week ago (6 children)

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.

😥

[–] needanke@feddit.org 25 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Gawdl3y@pawb.social 11 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] dance_ninja@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Someone could just start a NSFW version, right?

[–] ryper@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

There's an "Adult" section in pixelfed.org's instance list

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[–] penguinclaw@lemm.ee 20 points 1 week ago

Really enjoying Pixelfed. In fact I have found it's fairly smooth going replacing Meta apps and Twitter.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Is Pixelfed an appropriate place to upload an image to share on Lemmy / Mastodon?

[–] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 17 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It’s doable, but you might as well just upload it here. But for smaller albums, it would be a good idea.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 week ago (4 children)

What's the intended use case for Pixelfed?

[–] Blaze@feddit.org 36 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Instagram replacement rather than Imgur

For that there is https://catbox.moe/ and https://imgbb.com/

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[–] RmDebArc_5 14 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It acts as a Instagram replacement (but is actually about photos and not videos)

[–] Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)

loops.video is aiming for the video segment. Tho' it seems like one app for pix and vids would be nifty.

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[–] Microw@lemm.ee 9 points 1 week ago

Whatever the usecase for Instagram is

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[–] MxRemy@piefed.social 7 points 1 week ago

I've been doing that exact thing, but only as long as the images would be Instagram-worthy in the first place. Not just temporary junk. I figure it's probably more optimized for picture storage, since that's the whole point right? Plus then I get it two places instead of one!

If you use the raw media link itself instead of the link to the post, it displays on Lemmy exactly the same as if you'd uploaded it here in the first place. So that's nice.

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[–] CaptainHowdy@lemm.ee 18 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Why is their top instance not compatible? Pixelfed.social gives me errors when I try to auth

[–] Dremor@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

I didn't get any error. Probably just overwhelmed by new users 😆

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.

[–] alekwithak@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Probably a max exodus from Tiktokers who refuse to use Instagram.

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[–] garretble@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago (4 children)

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.

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[–] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I’m a little underwhelmed by the iOS app itself, but the content is great

Hopefully Pixelfed continues to bloom into a solid community!

The app doesn’t really feel native, and doesn’t have features like clicking to enlarge an image. If it’s open source I’d look into helping though

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[–] Resonosity@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 week ago

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

[–] NineMileTower@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (9 children)

That's odd. I've had the app for like 3 months.

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[–] aliser@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (3 children)

once again tried to register. this time, the biggest instance doesn't even load.

[–] pelespirit 13 points 1 week ago

It might help to pick a smaller instance.

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[–] Carighan@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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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[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The Impressia for Pixelfed app has been serving me well the past 6 months.

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[–] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 week ago

Yeah I tried the beta before. I just got a new smartphone so I'm happy it's available I the app store.

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