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.
It looks like the recommended Pixelfed instance, pixelfed.social, is running an outdated version of the platform.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
Really enjoying Pixelfed. In fact I have found it’s fairly smooth going replacing Meta apps and Twitter.
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.
Probably a max exodus from Tiktokers who refuse to use Instagram.
id imagine most of those people are on rednote
I didn’t get any error. Probably just overwhelmed by new users 😆
Just need to check again later. I had this same error at first.
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.
😥
https://pixelfed.org/servers -> Adult 😉
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?
There’s an “Adult” section in pixelfed.org’s instance list
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?
Fortunately we have PMs, right?
I was a member of the beta, and one thing that app really needs is a dark mode.
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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.
yeah thats the ones
…when the Undertaker threw Mankind off hеll in a cell, and plummeted sixteen feet through an announcer’s table.
Hey, man, you talkin’ back to me?
Hey! Man you disrespectin’ me?
oooooOOOOOoooo!!! I didn’t even know about this. But yes.
They’ve had one for a while.
I haven’t been able to upload any videos.
Keep your reels off Pixelfed please. Use loops.video instead.
Pixelfed is a photo sharing platform
You don’t think Pixelfed should have reels?
Yes, Pixelfed should 100% definitely not have reels. Reels and videos belong on something like loops.video or Peertube and not on Pixelfed.
Then allow users from one platform to use their ID on the other.
In fact, using fediverse social networks made me realize how much I could use a single point of identification for all the services. Like a fediverse passport or SSO.
I couldn’t find it in the App Store. How do you get it?
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pixelfed/id1632519816
Here’s the link. Oddly, it doesn’t show up for me either when I search for it.
Thanks!!
The screencap in the article looks pretty dark to me? Is there something that needs to be dark that the example pic doesn’t show? Asking as someone that turns everything to dark mode.
As of now, the iOS app does not have a dark mode. Though, I believe the Android version does.
It doesn’t.
Weird. I feel like at some point I remember it having a dark mode on one or the other. Wonder when and why it was removed.
It wasn’t removed, there was never an app before.
Hi! There was actually an official Pixelfed client in beta before the current one written in react native. And it did have dark mode support as well.
No? Huh, I could have sworn I had downloaded an APK and just assumed it was the beta. Haven’t had an Android in a year, though, so I might just be misremembering or thinking of another app.
No dark mode, no use.
PixelDroid is a client that supports dark mode.
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).
If all the things in the work queue, you’re balking on a COLOUR SCHEME?
That’s like stopping the construction crew for using the wrong colour work boots, man!
light mode gives me migraines dude. it’s more important than just a color preference.
No dark mode, no use.
BTW, work boot color is absolutely regulated depending on context. For example here in Germany, if you work in sterile or food-related industries then shoes are to be issued and used with a color that cannot inherently hide stains by the material you’re working with, to prevent accidentally carrying contaminations into other clean zones.
So yes, you would stop the construction crew for using the wrong color work boots.
Same for medical software. Green MUST be an approved green color, and same for red, as the wrong color can give wrong advice and may kill people.
While you may be right about the boots thing that doesn’t stop me from thinking your obstinacy is a bit of a reach and looks embarrassing XD
While my comment was certainly controversial, the number of up-votes from users in the Fediverse means it shouldn’t be ignored, either.
Luckily embarrassment is controlled by the person feeling it, and I seem to have a severe lack of that gene 😆
LOL XD Jokes aside it’s interesting how the dark mode thing becomes more of a symbol than anything in certain communities. Obviously the science shows pros and cons both ways, but there’s an implicit in group/out group about it. I might compare it to turning off your autocaps on Tumblr.
you’re balking on a COLOUR SCHEME
How can I not?? Dx
It’s more like stopping the construction crew from painting your house a colour you hate. Which sounds more reasonable
No it isn’t, if a modern app doesn’t have dark-mode to protect your eyes Then it’s a health-hazard
Look, someone reported this as misinformation. Too bad me, the active mod here, gets pain in the eyes, sometimes flickering vision, and sometimes what I would describe as sea sickness from staring onto bright white screens. When I have no other choice because work, I invert all screen colors but sometimes correct colors are important.
So yeah, no proper dark mode means it’s a crap app.
It’s common knowledge that dark-mode hurts your eyes less So yeah, these people who reported are people who think their opinions & google-searches are superior to common knowledge
There are other vision conditions where people cannot see letters in dark mode that well. Apps and websites should just follow whatever the OS setting is, no matter the motivation of the user. Even if it’s just a matter of taste and not some form of eye sight condition, it’s just as valid.
Agreed, but all apps (especially social media ones) need a dark-mode
[citation needed]
Cuz you said so, why don’t you stare into a bright light & find out
Hold on, are you confusing something being hurting (as in, causing pain and/or pathological damage) with something being exhausting (as in, strains your eyes) with something being annoying?
Because if the three words are used interchangeably in your vocabulary that’d explain a lot of your seemingly random posts in the comments here. They’re not the same (at all) to most people and especially not on a medical level (like that article you yourself provided, there is no medical evidence for non-extreme light sources making a difference in eye health).
Thats nonsense
Literally spent 30 seconds on a Google before you start spewing lies like this.
There’s a variety of reasons to prefer dark mode, but spreading fake health information isn’t valid.
I spent reading books, before YOU started smearing a well-know fact as a lie It’s connected with causing myopia & eye-strains
Your precious google won’t tell you that (Or maybe you simply clicked the first link that confirmed your bias)
Fine, let’s play. Wheres the study you are using as your source?
Pick up an opthalmology book, find it yourself & ask your opthalmology specialist Those are my sources & here’s a website too (do you have the guts to touch grass ?)
I already mentioned it, it’s the same reason why we use blue-light filters & why we use anti-glare screen protectors
But apparently a single “google-search” is enough for you
You really should read pages you want to link. And I say this as a die-hard dark mode user. It’s worrying that you so aggressively attack people get cannot even read the page you link far enough to notice that what you are saying about it is nonsense (like how it has “the same reason”, which of course it doesn’t, as made clear in the article).
Or you know, at least don’t be such a dick. That’s also help a lot!
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.
Wow, I was unaware of this, it looks so promising…
I’m still on the waitlist. Download link not working sounds weird
Is that like a federated version of flikr?
I think it’s supposed to be like old instagram.
@surph_ninja old instagram was good as it was.
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.
Wanted to add, I recently tried #pixelix for #pixelfed, and I might actually like this app better that the official.
https://app.pixelix.social/ https://github.com/daniebeler/pixelix https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.daniebeler.pfpixelix
The beauty of the #openinternet, #freesoftware, #socialweb and #activitypub
Great. Then all the people who just post photos on Lemmy can gtfo
I don’t agree, this actually a good opportunity for #pixelfed to support #groups so people who want their post to reach a larger audience can choose a magazine/community to post.
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.
I wish there was an easy way to know which servers are getting hammered more than others.
I can easily make a post to my server via the website, but the app was giving me trouble, as an example. That’s why I wonder where the hiccup is/was. Both the website and app are just interfaces to get data to a server, so if one doesn’t work I’d assume the other doesn’t too. But I dunno.
Edit: After writing this I went back and tried posting from the app again. It finally worked! I guess things have settled down.
My guess, as a cloud developer, there may be a bottleneck at their authentication, or session management. Your web browser has probably been signed in for a while. I’m guessing your app hasn’t been able to get past that point, and is stuck in the bottleneck
For sure.
That’s interesting that you were able to post via the website but not the app. It’s possible that you were lucky with the website being one of the requests that the server was able to handle, or perhaps the website and app use different pathways and the app pathway was more congested?
Good to hear it worked eventually.
Is Pixelfed an appropriate place to upload an image to share on Lemmy / Mastodon?
Well that’s the neat part, you don’t! If you post on Pixelfed you’re already on Mastodon.
…I suppose you can reshare it if you want. Me, I just point people to my Pixelfed account on my Mastodon profile and vice versa.
I wonder if they were thinking like how before Reddit had image galleries, people would use imgur
It’s doable, but you might as well just upload it here. But for smaller albums, it would be a good idea.
I wish we could have multiple photos in posts here. Yes, we can put other photos in the description, but it would be nice to view all of them without opening the post.
What’s the intended use case for Pixelfed?
Instagram replacement rather than Imgur
For that there is https://catbox.moe/ and https://imgbb.com/
Pixelfed can be used as image hoster likewise, those 2 you mention are proprietary, so if one cared about that, they might prefer Pixelfed
It acts as a Instagram replacement (but is actually about photos and not videos)
loops.video is aiming for the video segment. Tho’ it seems like one app for pix and vids would be nifty.
Pixelfed does videos to, and I think federation with loops is planned
I hadn’t tried vids! Ok, it could get a whole lot weirder, and/or more informative.
Whatever the usecase for Instagram is
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.
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
I don’t know. Pictures of people’s dog and what they’re eating for lunch. It’s like subscribing to getty images.
The Impressia for Pixelfed app has been serving me well the past 6 months.
I was wondering about that app as I saw the listing. I’m glad someone likes it.
