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[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 hours ago

I just read all that along with the "dossier" they compiled and it seemed pretty weak in my view. Yeah, the guy sounds a little bit passive-aggressive, but I think "mental problems" is way too strong an evaluation. That dossier is almost exclusively one-sided too, as in, we only see his posts, and not the context of what he was responding to. Many many people could be made to look bad if only their responses were posted without context. This seems like the worse kind of Fedidrama. I wish I could have the time I spent reading that back.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 hours ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago

Just need to check again later. I had this same error at first.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 hours ago (3 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.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 hours 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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 hours 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Are they spying on my chats? How would they know its contents?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Unless E2EE is implemented - the service owner can see all the messages, as they are stored in plain text.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

So there's no E2EE on pixelfed?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Someone could just start a NSFW version, right?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 13 hours 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

Wow, I was unaware of this, it looks so promising...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago

I'm still on the waitlist. Download link not working sounds weird

[–] [email protected] 41 points 23 hours ago (11 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago

PixelDroid is a client that supports dark mode.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

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.

@[email protected], @'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).

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[–] [email protected] 130 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (29 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 hours ago

Pixelix a PixelFed client has that :)

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