It looks like the recommended Pixelfed instance, pixelfed.social, is running an outdated version of the platform.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

[–] Blakdragon@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] penguinclaw@lemm.ee 20 points 2 days ago

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

[–] finley@lemm.ee 142 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (32 children)

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

[–] sjmarf@sh.itjust.works 24 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

~~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.

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[–] addie@feddit.uk 22 points 2 days ago (7 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.

😥

[–] italics2@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

https://pixelfed.org/servers -> Adult 😉

[–] needanke@feddit.org 25 points 2 days 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.

[–] Gawdl3y@pawb.social 12 points 2 days 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.

[–] dance_ninja@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Someone could just start a NSFW version, right?

[–] ryper@lemmy.ca 11 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

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

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[–] CaptainHowdy@lemm.ee 18 points 2 days ago (4 children)

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

[–] PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

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.

[–] Dremor@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago

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

[–] alekwithak@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] rami@ani.social 1 points 1 day ago

id imagine most of those people are on rednote

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[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 46 points 3 days ago (27 children)

No dark mode, no use.

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

PixelDroid is a client that supports dark mode.

[–] spaduf@slrpnk.net 1 points 17 hours ago

Pixelix feels a lot more modern and is now on fdroid!

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[–] veganpizza69@lemmy.world 29 points 3 days ago (1 children)

how are they paying for the hosting?

[–] Fitik@fedia.io 55 points 3 days ago

Donations and NLNet grant, you can support Pixelfed yourself

https://pixelfed.org/support-our-project

[–] TheFederatedPipe@fedia.io 31 points 3 days ago (4 children)

I just installed and is pretty neat. Truly a photo first social media.

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[–] Carighan@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days 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.

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[–] garretble@lemmy.world 17 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] xapr@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 2 days ago (3 children)

People are saying that the servers are overloaded at the moment from all the new people trying it out.

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[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 17 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Is Pixelfed an appropriate place to upload an image to share on Lemmy / Mastodon?

[–] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 17 points 3 days ago (10 children)

It’s doable, but you might as well just upload it here. But for smaller albums, it would be a good idea.

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