Really enjoying Pixelfed. In fact I have found it’s fairly smooth going replacing Meta apps and Twitter.
Is this platform from that aggressive guy who has mental problems?
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.
Why is their top instance not compatible? Pixelfed.social gives me errors when I try to auth
Probably a max exodus from Tiktokers who refuse to use Instagram.
Just need to check again later. I had this same error at first.
I didn’t get any error. Probably just overwhelmed by new users 😆
Is that like a federated version of flikr?
I think it’s supposed to be like old instagram.
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.
😥
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?
Someone could just start a NSFW version, right?
There’s an “Adult” section in pixelfed.org’s instance list
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.
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.
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.
@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!
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
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
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.
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 😆
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.
light mode gives me migraines dude. it’s more important than just a color preference.
It’s more like stopping the construction crew from painting your house a colour you hate. Which sounds more reasonable
you’re balking on a COLOUR SCHEME
How can I not?? Dx
once again tried to register. this time, the biggest instance doesn’t even load.
pixey.org is a good one to try
It might help to pick a smaller instance.
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.
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.
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.
how are they paying for the hosting?
Donations and NLNet grant, you can support Pixelfed yourself
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
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’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.
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?
Whatever the usecase for Instagram is
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
Yeah I tried the beta before. I just got a new smartphone so I’m happy it’s available I the app store.
That’s odd. I’ve had the app for like 3 months.
It’s as a reaction to the news about TikTok possibly being sold and people jumping to “Red Book”, the other Chinese platform. Maybe some people will read the TechCrunch article and consider Pixelfed.
I like pixel fed, but like all federated websites, it doesn’t have a lot of content yet.
HMU bb https://pxlmo.com/jakelec
Those are some nice pictures! Are they all yours? Btw, I do wonder if it’s possible to comment on pictures there from here @jakelec@pxlmo.com
Just subbed. Maybe new pictures will pop up in my feed.
All mine
The beta, not sure how you missed that.
Damn, you are right. Now that you mention it, I did signup for the beta through their website. I just forgot.
its been on fdroid since last october, this is just the first official release on gplay and apple
That’s probably where I got it then.
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