Pixelfed got featured on the Wired and here’s what @dansup@mastodon.social, the author of @pixelfed@mastodon.social, says:
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All those long nights working on backend scalability and performance improvements are about to be put to the test
I wasn’t anticipating this attention for a few more months, but I’m ready 😎
gabe [he/him] ( @gabe@literature.cafe ) 68•11 months agoDamn the fediverse is really having it’s moment. I guess even non-techie people really are truly getting fed up with corporate social media.
mishimaenjoyer ( @mishimaenjoyer@kbin.social ) 22•11 months agoimpossible people, sponsored content, ads and your data on a buffet - it was long overdue, but i’m glad it’s finally gaining momentum.
habanhero ( @habanhero@lemmy.ca ) 19•11 months agoMy personal observation is that people have been fed up for quite a while, not so much by the Instagram app itself but by Meta’s brand, their untrustworthiness and the general vapid and scammy nature of the hordes of Influencers and “hustlers”. It’s just regular folks aren’t aware of decent alternatives or the alternatives aren’t quite there yet.
Otter ( @otter@lemmy.ca ) English3•11 months agoSomeone asked this before, but is there a Canadian instance for pixelfed? That’s what’s kept me from trying it out.
I see that pixelfed.ca is registered, but doesn’t seem to go anywhere.
Otherwise is there another good instance to make an account on?
gabe [he/him] ( @gabe@literature.cafe ) 5•11 months agoIt’s a platform still in its infancy but improving rapidly, social.photo is a pretty good one if you want a smaller instance, it’s hosted by the admin over at discuss.online. I’m not a member of discuss.online but I can vouch that @jgrim@discuss.online is an awesome sysadmin and I have full faith in him maintaining that instance long term (if you’re ever worried of signing up to a small instance and it disappearing… I highly doubt his stuff will.). Currently migration isn’t added into pixelfed yet (its being worked on though) but I am gonna sign up to that one anyway, it’s always best to spread around the federation.
Might be worth reaching out to lemmy.ca admins though and seeing if they have one spun up or would be willing to as well.
jgrim of Sublinks ( @jgrim@discuss.online ) 3•11 months agoThanks @gabe@literature.cafe! https://social.photo. I just opened registration so it’s still very young. I am running Lemmy on https://discuss.online, Mastodon on https://utter.online and Pixelfed on https://social.photo. I also run a matrix instance on the same discuss.online domain.
I’m based in Ohio, US; however, the servers are in New York on DigitalOcean. That’s really close to Canada :).
I’m trying to build an ecosystem under the https://participating.online brand. I don’t plan on going anywhere.
In fact, I had planned to build something many years ago and I’ll probably start on it now. It will provide a unique experience once it’s done in a several months. I’m working on some other stuff first… like myself.
Drinvictus ( @Drinvictus@discuss.tchncs.de ) 34•11 months agoPixelfed is great but it never had a mass migration like Mastodon or Lemmy. So it lacks users.
Yes, but things can change. Stories of Mastodon and Lemmy are inspiring. When Reddit backslash happened, Lemmy was already there as a good alternative for people to switch to. So was the case of Mastodon with the Twitter exodus. It’s good that we’ve Pixelfed, it may be just a matter of time.
Black_Gulaman ( @Black_Gulaman@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 6•11 months agoI’m on pixelfed, and truthfully, the lack of professional grade photos there are what actually made it great for me. I want to see ordinary photos from ordinary people. Taken during their ordinary day to day life.
Roundcat ( @Roundcat@kbin.social ) 9•11 months agoI already registered, you don’t have to sell it to me!
Otter ( @otter@lemmy.ca ) English3•11 months agoKnowing tech companies, it’s just a matter of time lol
hoodatninja ( @hoodatninja@kbin.social ) 14•11 months agoSomeone give me a hard sell here! Why should I use this app? I used to use Instagram (photographer/cinematographer), and I stopped using it because not just the tracking and all of that, but frankly, the content itself. Not to mention the algorithms are so busted and all they do is show me rage bait or flagrant ads disguised as content I would actually care about.
Why do people like pixelfed?
sab ( @sab@kbin.social ) 17•11 months agoIn my experience it is very much focused around photography, similar to Instagram when it was still good. The lack of algorithms pushing bullshit makes the feed feel much more organic, showing the people you follow - and there are already, in my experience, a healthy amount of talented people sharing interesting content.
Then again, I appreciate nature photography, so I’m not hard to satisfy.
LPS ( @lps@masto.1146.nohost.me ) 5•11 months ago@hoodatninja
You just described the reason yourself;)
@dansup @pixelfed @bady @fediverse hoodatninja ( @hoodatninja@kbin.social ) 3•11 months agoLol guess so. So it really strips that stuff away?
Kara ( @Kara@kbin.social ) 4•11 months agoYeah, like pretty much all platforms on the fediverse, they’re not owned by large companies, and don’t try ads or selling user data for profit
hoodatninja ( @hoodatninja@kbin.social ) 2•11 months agoDo you know if there are plans for an iOS app? I only see one or two third-party apps. Are they any good?
Kara ( @Kara@kbin.social ) 2•11 months agoThere have been testflights (Apple betas) for the pixelfed app, so it’s in development. Unsure about the quality of 3rd party apps though
hoodatninja ( @hoodatninja@kbin.social ) 2•11 months agoThanks!
EugeneNine ( @EugeneNine@lemmy.ml ) 12•11 months agoI’ve been posting on pixelfed.social but haven’t had much interaction, but maybe this will get the word out a bit.
garam ( @garam@lemmy.my.id ) English1•11 months agoSome will say
Touch the real grass, outside…
*JK, better have real social interaction outside tbh
EugeneNine ( @EugeneNine@lemmy.ml ) 2•11 months agoAll my pictures are of outside activities, figured maybe someday someone local may see then interact outside as well.
Blaze ( @Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de ) 11•11 months agoInteresting, is Pixelfed mature enough today? Do they support stories?
Stories feature is there. But I haven’t used it myself, so I can’t tell more about it.
JokeDeity ( @JokeDeity@lemm.ee ) 11•11 months agoOf all the social media I’ve been on over the years, I don’t think any of them have given me less joy and more frustration than Instagram. Anything’s better than that garbage.
Jeena ( @jeena@jemmy.jeena.net ) 6•11 months agoSo I wonder if the comments get imported too, but I guess no.
millions ( @millionsofplayers@lemmy.one ) English6•11 months agoThen it’d be showing nonexistent users, I think it just imports the posts, captions and timestamps
hoodatninja ( @hoodatninja@kbin.social ) 5•11 months agoSomeone give me a hard sell here! Why should I use this app? I used to use Instagram (photographer/cinematographer), and I stopped using it because not just the tracking and all of that, but frankly, the content itself. Not to mention the algorithms are so busted and all they do is show me rage bait or flagrant ads disguised as content I would actually care about.
Why do people like pixelfed?
Peafield ( @Peafield@programming.dev ) 8•11 months agoAs with all the fediverse stuff, it feels like early Instagram when you weren’t bombarded by a million ads and celebrity bullshit all the time. It feels like a great community of amateur photographers coming together to share and be inspired again to take photos. That’s why I like it.
hoodatninja ( @hoodatninja@kbin.social ) 4•11 months agoSounds great. How does sorting work on it? Is it just who you subscribe to and show what was the most recent?
Peafield ( @Peafield@programming.dev ) 4•11 months agoYeah it’s either the latest from who you follow, local timelines or the federated one.
hoodatninja ( @hoodatninja@kbin.social ) 3•11 months agoCool! Just joined the largest instance via Verrisage (sp?) hope to see you around! Going to post some 35mm shots of mine soon.
itsmistermoon ( @itsmistermoon@feddit.cl ) 3•11 months agoWell, for starters it has none of those things that you dislike so much about instagram.
dreamfall ( @dreamfall@artemis.camp ) 2•11 months agoOk, yet another fediverse copy of a previous app where none of the people/things I want to follow are at…at least Mastodon has bird.makeup which clones twitter accounts so I can still see the people I follow who don’t use Mastodon.
Does Pixelfed have a version of that for Instagram?
habanhero ( @habanhero@lemmy.ca ) 5•11 months agoJust use Instagram? You can’t engage with Fediverse clone accounts.
dreamfall ( @dreamfall@artemis.camp ) 1•11 months agoI don’t care too much about interacting overall. Guess I will just stick with Insta
habanhero ( @habanhero@lemmy.ca ) 3•11 months agoI mean yeah, at this point people are here on Fediverse out of principle, not content. It’s like complaining why there are no scrappy reality dating shows on PBS, it’s missing the point.
jacktherippah ( @jacktherippah@lemdro.id ) English2•11 months agoYou know, on the one hand, I really want to support the Fediverse. But on the other hand, too much social media is bad. So it’s kind of a delicate balancing act.
jeanofthedead ( @jeanofthedead@kbin.social ) 1•11 months agoHas this actually worked for anyone? I click on Review Uploads and the website either crashed or nothing happens.