It looks like the recommended Pixelfed instance, pixelfed.social, is running an outdated version of the platform.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
this post was submitted on 14 Jan 2025
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Really enjoying Pixelfed. In fact I have found it's fairly smooth going replacing Meta apps and Twitter.
I was a member of the beta, and one thing that app really needs is a dark mode.
~~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.
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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.
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.
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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?
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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.
I didn't get any error. Probably just overwhelmed by new users 😆
Probably a max exodus from Tiktokers who refuse to use Instagram.
id imagine most of those people are on rednote
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No dark mode, no use.
PixelDroid is a client that supports dark mode.
Pixelix feels a lot more modern and is now on fdroid!
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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.
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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.
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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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Is Pixelfed an appropriate place to upload an image to share on Lemmy / Mastodon?
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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