Hey, a bunnch of friends wants to go away from Meta, I myself are on Pixelfed.social bit I think the sign-up is closed for now? As I understand it the local feed varies quite a lot and I want a good expereice for them, anyone who has suggestions?

Making this post instead of just figuring it out myself is maybe a very lazy thing to do, but here:

I made a pixelfed account a while ago and it seemed kind of hard to navigate and I also only saw a handful of posters. However, since then I have seen loads of people mentioning it across lemmy, and from them I get the impression it's actually more active than I assumed? With a lot more posters.

So if anyone can give some tips for how to navigate and get started on it, it would be appreciated. I have some specific questions:

• Does pixelfed have instances like Lemmy does, or is it just one instance?
• What is it federated with? Can, I for instance, view Pixelfed posts from Lemmy?
• Just to double check - it doesn't have DMs like Instagram, right?
• Does it utilise tags on posts, like Instagram used to do and tumblr does?
• Any specific ethos I have to bear in mind, like "don't post too much" or "only post your own stuff"?

Thank you.

I was enjoying scrolling birds and plants from all over the globe. Wish I had the savvy to pitch in to fix it.

At the beginning, I could follow hashtags with no issue, both on the desktop browser and also on the iOS app. Now I can unfollow hashtags, but am unable to follow any additional hashtags.

Anyone else having this issue? Any workarounds?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/28252147

Fedicast / Podcast: https://audio.firesidefedi.live/@firesidefedi/episodes/dansup-pixelfed-loops-sup-etc

The author of the article characterizes their findings as a vulnerability in Pixelfed, that it was treating all follow requests as approved. An update has already been released to make Pixelfed honor that setting, but the vulnerability still exists with ActivityPub in the feature itself. It gives users a false expectation of privacy, which is not safe.

From the notes:

• Added Themes (light, dark, slate, pink)
• Fixed Android comment input bug
• Fixed unblock action
• Bug fixes and performance improvements

Any idea why it is that my PixelFed posts aren't federating properly to my Mastodon instance? I understand that posts should be visible, but it's inconsistent.

I am following my pixelfed account from my masto. I'm not yet following anyone else from masto itself. Perhaps it's related to following, but random pixelfed.social accounts seem to be fully accessible from my mastodon account when I try them.

Anyway, the inconsistency makes it challenging for me to figure out if the problem is with pixelfed.social federating out or if it's a problem with universeodon.com receiving posts.

After searching around for answers to which server I should join, I came to the conclusion it didn't matter much. It seems I was incorrect, however, as pixelfed.social, the server I eventually chose, currently has IG imports disabled. This is an issue, as that was basically my while reason for joining, to migrate from IG.

So my question is, where should I go now?

Does pixelfed have dark mode on android? I open my app and go to appearance and I don't see any options for that. All my other apps are in dark mode. The web version dark mode works. I want to use pixelfed but the white that the app uses could not possibly be worse for my eyes. Trying to use the app for just a few minutes gave me a headache.

geteilt von: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/28463793

When I upload a short video to Pixelfed, I don't get a preview image. The video is mp4 H.264. Is there a solution? I would find Pixelfed super as an Instagram replacement. But without a preview, it's not that nice. I gave an example as a link. What experiences do you have with pixelfed and videos?

https://pixelfed.de/stickbro

Somehow I still seem to have a hard time dealing with Fediverse and Co. Currently with Pixelfed. I'm looking for hashtags like #eosr7 or #irishwolfhound on my instance, but no results will be found. But I created such posts myself with these hashtags. If you can't find results through the search, you can't add the hashtag to the "followed hashtags". If I click on such a hashtag in my posts, I can subscribe to it.

Why can't I find posts via the search forhashtags?

As a user on my personal instance I can see text-only posts when others boost them to my timeline, but I cannot make them except as replies. Maybe it's for the best, but I still would like to make a text-only post from time to time.

I see there's an update coming soon that will add support for AVIF (woo!) and I wonder if that'll also coincide with enabling WebP for pixelfed.social? I was hoping to use less platform resources by uploading smaller/better files.

Also, if they're smaller maybe they won't have to be reconverted server-side? It'd be nice if I could optimize them locally from RAW without them being reprocessed but didn't see any guidelines in help that would guide me in doing that. Or will it be re-jpg'd regardless of what I send?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.crimedad.work/post/124405

How do I get a split-flap display like these to work with Pixelfed?

cross-posted from: https://pixelfed.crimedad.work/p/crimedad/735603911380934474

How do I get a split-flap display like these to work with Pixelfed?

#solari #NewJersey #Pint #JerseyCity #PixelFed

@crosspost@lemmy.crimedad.work

I am developing an Android Pixelfed client and I have a problem. When the user chooses to authenticate using Sign-in-through mastodon, the internal browser used for the login process is not closed and the "Do you want to authorize this app"-screen is never shown. The user would have to close the browser and click again on the login button to finish the oauth process. If they do that, the authorization screen still is not shown and it will be accepted automatically.

If the user chooses to login with pixelfed credentials (just the normal login, no fancy mastodon stuff), everything works correctly.

i.e. just the image itself without any UI elements? Reason for the question is it would be ideal if Lemmy posts could link direct to an image rather than the site itself.

I can install and run pixelfed on a subdomain, for example, pixelfed.example.com. However, I also run mastodon.example.com. My webfinger points at mastodon. How do I configure a webfinger for both pixelfed and mastodon? How do you all have your webfingers setup when you run multiple activitypub-based services?

Edit: I should also add that I'm trying to tie my mastodon account to user@domain.tld, not specific to the mastodon subdomain, but specific to my user email identity. My mastodon domain would be sometime like mastodon.domain.com, which would normally make my user user@mastodon.domain.com.

I do see this as a potential solution - I could route the specific service based on user agent to the correct webfinger: https://serverfault.com/questions/775463/nginx-redirect-based-on-user-agent#825725

So here is the issue on github:

https://github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed/issues/3563

If folks have GitHub accounts, could you please bump this/thumbs up?

I create an account yesterday on a pixelfed instance to post new hip hop releases and was flagged as spam.It's been 24 and still no review. Why is that? Did anybody has the same problem and how long did it take for the post to be listed?

@dansup@mastodon.social had announced this feature as 'coming soon' a few months ago - I can't find the post anymore and wonder if it works in the meantime? 🤔

So, I’m trying to make the switch from Pinterest to Pixelfed.

However I’m curious if there’s a way to instant migrate all pins to Pixelfed. Yes, it is more than 10K pins.

Bonus question: How to hide NSFW content on Pixelfed?

Hey, I recently discovered the android pixelfed app and love it. I just couldn't figure out how to create albums. Can anyone help me out please.

Can I add more locations, for example I search and find Alum Creek, but I want to tag with Alum Creek State Park. How do I add more locations or a location that isn't found.

I have a meme account on Instagram, which I'd like to also have on the Fediverse. Can anyone recommend me a Pixelfed instance for this? Or maybe another type of server?