Pixelfed’s time to shine. We all succeed with this one!
this post was submitted on 16 Jan 2025
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Hopefully the whisperings of Lemmy gets into the ears of folks.
Waiting for the resurrection of Reddit VS Instagram meme war as Lemmy VS Pixelfed
The cool thing is that it's not like versus, it's like co-op!
It's a great opportunity for #pixelfed to add #group support, so those sharing their videos can share it directly to a community/magazine reaching to a wider audience. Same for #loops. Obviously, not at the moment, where everyone is trying to keep things up and running. @[email protected]
Pixelfed still has to fix really basic stuff first. Like pulling changed profile pics from remote instances, federating properly and consistently, not having three different UIs from different stages of development at once, making sure settings do what they’re supposed to do…
and free-text search, not just on hashtags and usernames.
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Sad the dude behind it is kind of a Jerk. Was bullying a kid on Mastodon just a few weeks back and he got a bunch of backlash for it. Dude also got a bit of a Messiah complex, had to unfollow him 🥴
Please let’s not start the personal attacks on the developers. Lemmy was a shit storm of that and it really sucked when I joined. Take the gift of the software and move on.
Yeah there is something very ironic about commenting this on Lemmy
I mean no shade at you, like morality is subjective. But Imma still do me, Im greedy like that when it comes to what I expect out of people.
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Yup. Been following Dan for a while and this has only gotten worse. Problem is, his attitude absolutely informs the way he manages and handles his projects. Even one glance at the issues page for Pixelfed shows that.
I think at some point, a lot of the Fedi will realise that toxicity and hopefully we’ll see fork efforts like Pixelfed-glitch get more support. Because Pixelfed and Loops are good ideas, executed by someone who really doesn’t have the ability to properly execute on them. I don’t anticipate that these current user numbers will stay given the current, quite broken, state of Pixelfed.
Pixelfed is great, but it needs developing…some pics don’t load, comments don’t comment, likes don’t like. I’d love it if this got fixed, dark mode got added, more users and other bits and pieces. Are you saying that this won’t happen then?
Also a shame to find out he’s a prick.
It’s hard to say, but I’m not anticipating anything myself. Dude seems to be more interested in making flashy branded announcements than developing the thing to a working state.
What I will say is, he’s has for the last several years just under 400 Patreon backers (one of which was me), which was intended to give him funding to bring Pixelfed to a state of relative completion.
In that time he effectively abandoned Pixelfed to work on Loops (which is also in a really rough state and I anticipate will be similarly abandoned for Sup once he runs out of things to ‘announce’ for it), and now that Pixelfed has suddenly gotten this wave of attention, he’s talking about launching a Kickstarter to actually do the thing this time.
He has also been privately very hostile to groups such as the devs of Pixelfed-glitch, which were formed to continue development of Pixelfed, all while publicly stating that he is embracing it with open arms and sharing the development with that team.
He also responds to criticisms of these behaviours with posts like the ones I’ve attached here.
Source: Have been a Pixelfed instance admin for about five years, know several of the pf-glitch devs (who are all mostly server admins), and have been fairly active in the GitHub issues.
Hmmm. Seems like he’s one hell of a guy….I was tempted to offer some feedback but I don’t want to get accused of criticising. Thanks mate, we’ll see how it plays out, hey?
Absolutely! I’m genuinely hoping for the best because I like the idea behind Pixelfed. 🤞
Same. It’s a great app, just needs some work.
For those who want to know, Mastodon is first, Peertube is third and Lemmy is coming in at fourth place on MAUs
I didn't expect peertube to be that high.
Surprised Lemmy is so low tbh. It feels pretty active here to me!
This goes to show that you do not need millions of people to have a good community.
The new app is pretty good (although still missing major features). That might have something to do with any recent growth.
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So wait, is it like using lemmy? I mean with choosing a server for your account. (Looks lke it, yes) ~~Does it have a "front page" like lemmy~~? (It does)
~~Is it subject oriented, or person to person like twitter~~. (Person oriented, and tags for subjects)
Edit: Im editing in (my findings) while taking a looksee.
Edit. F it. i signed up.
It's basically mastodon with a different front end. No fundamental differences.
That's good to know thanks. I don't use mastodon or anything like Twitter/Facebook.
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I was never one to use Instagram, specifically because of the meta bullshit... looks like maybe I'll try pixelfed as a first time for the format.
Yeah, pixelfed is definetly the most normie friendly. Even my friend was able to make an account.
If someone would have told me this like a couple of years back, back when most people (besides the foss community) didn’t know about it, I deffo wouldn’t have believed you lol.
It’s nice to see some alternatives getting promoted though.
That number has to be low. There's been nearly 200k new signups in the last few days. Pixelfed's blowing up right now. The local feed on p.s is a never-ending stream of first posts.
I made an account but I don't really see the appeal. It just feels like a bunch of random photos at the moment. Nothing I really feel like following, as it will just be more random photos.
Maybe someone can help me out. I'm in the app, is there a way to see a feed from all of pixelfed and not just local? I'm on pxlmo.com
There isn't, unfortunately. Global shows you all of the Fediverse, not just Pixelfed. A global pixelfed feed was a planned feature at one point but I'm not sure of its status.
For now, it's really hard to find pixelfed users on other servers because they get drowned out by all the Mastodon traffic.
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On the top right is a user icon. Click that and then choose Global
Time for me to jump onto the bandwagon. You'll never know because it will not be under this pseudonym.
I never tried PixelFed and just signed up to pixel.tchncs.de. As a client I downloaded Pixelix from F-Droid. Now I'm there with an empty feed. How do I get started?
There's a section with trending profiles and one with trending hashtags but both sections seem to have pretty generic content like #art, #photography, #photos etc.
Don't get me wrong, it's nice photographies and all but it feels really anonymous and a bit random to me. Is this the normal PixelFed experience or am I doing it wrong?
Scroll the local feed. Search hashtags and follow hashtags you're interested in. As with Mastodon, your home feed will be empty until you follow people.
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What is it?
Fediverse version of imgur?
It's an Instagram alt.
neat thanks
Instagram IIRC
You got it right, like Friendica for FB
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