I never used Instagram. I've tried Pixelfed and I don't quite get it. Sure, you post pictures with captions, but I feel like there is emptiness. When I scroll through my followed users, I just see some art and photographs. I don't know if I'm doing anything wrong, but Pixelfed doesn't seem very active for me.
this post was submitted on 07 Jul 2023
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I love seeing pictures of the world from other people's perspective. Urban shots. Nature shots. Any old boring shots like just a side road you walk down, or a tree you like to sit under. I like being able to see the quiet places in the world as well as the loud ones.
If that describes a lot of anyone's posts, add me there and I will follow you back https://pixelfed.social/i/web/profile/577121287304400256
I do enjoy Pixelfed, but export is a bit limited right now. If you have more than 500 posts, you can't (as far as I can tell) export your data, Not that I want to at the moment, but I do like to take backups of my stuff just in case. I imagine the dev is working the issue, though.
I only use Instagram to follow public figures, so moving to Pixelfed is a no-no.
It definitely is a good alternative for the original Instagram idea (a place for photographers to share their pictures) before Meta bought Insta and turned it into Facebook 2.0.
Thanks for the recommendation! Trying it out and liking it so far :)
Is there an iOS client app for it?
the best thing is for people like me who just used instagram to lurk it works really well with mastodon or calckey. just follow whoever you like and it'll show up in your feed no problem
Pixelfed seems to only show Mastodon posts with an image attached. Which seems intuitive when you think about it, but the user profile page is a bit wonky as the summary line lists a different number of posts for the person than what it shows for that person's feed. Vice versa, following Pixelfed profiles from Mastodon, seems much more consistent so far.
A great Pixelfed client for iOS is Vernissage.
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/vernissage-for-pixelfed/id1663543216
I was trying that one, but I think I like Tusker better and it can do both Mastadon and Pixelfed.
Ah, I didn’t like Tusker at all as a Mastodon client and went with Ivory. But, I’ll give it a chance as a Pixelfed client and see how it goes.
This inspired me to try Ivory with Pixelfed and it works!
I’m new to mastodon and pixelfed. I had just used the original mastodon app which I don’t think works yet with pixelfed. I am going to try ivory now as I was not thrilled with Tusker either but I liked it better then vernisegge or whatever. So far ivory looks amazing! $15/yr isn’t bad either.
thank you for this! 🌷
Oh I forgot about this. Just tried it, awesome. Low user count for my niche interest but I hope it can grow
I wanna give it a try, but I've been looking at the servers and I haven't found the one for me and what I'll use the account for. Nor do I know of any account on a pixelfed server I could be interested in following...to just follow accounts on completely different federated servers it wouldn't make any sense to me.
I feel like instagram is one one of those apps - at least the way I use it - that relies on a lot of your irl friends having it as well. I would love for them to be open to signing up to some fediverse platform but we're not there right now sadly.
Yeah I’m curious if all the people in the comments that say they are using and enjoying it also have friends that signed up or if it’s just all meme accounts.