Decentralized Instagram alternative Pixelfed launches mobile apps
Decentralized Instagram alternative Pixelfed launches mobile apps
Pixelfed, a decentralized alternative to Instagram, has launched its official mobile apps. The service today runs on the same ActivityPub protocol that
It looks like the recommended Pixelfed instance, pixelfed.social, is running an outdated version of the platform.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
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 couldn’t find it in the App Store. How do you get it?
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pixelfed/id1632519816
Here’s the link. Oddly, it doesn’t show up for me either when I search for it.
Really enjoying Pixelfed. In fact I have found it's fairly smooth going replacing Meta apps and Twitter.
No dark mode, no use.
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.
Edit: And yes, I'm very excited to see the growth achieved in the other post. Fantastic news.
@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).
PixelDroid is a client that supports dark mode.
Pixelix feels a lot more modern and is now on fdroid!
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.
😥
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.
https://pixelfed.org/servers -> Adult 😉
Someone could just start a NSFW version, right?
There's an "Adult" section in pixelfed.org's instance list
Fortunately we have PMs, right?
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.
Wanted to add, I recently tried #pixelix for #pixelfed, and I might actually like this app better that the official.
https://app.pixelix.social/ https://github.com/daniebeler/pixelix https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.daniebeler.pfpixelix
The beauty of the #openinternet, #freesoftware, #socialweb and #activitypub
Great. Then all the people who just post photos on Lemmy can gtfo
I don't agree, this actually a good opportunity for #pixelfed to support #groups so people who want their post to reach a larger audience can choose a magazine/community to post.
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.
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 wonder if they were thinking like how before Reddit had image galleries, people would use imgur
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.
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.
Wow, I was unaware of this, it looks so promising...
I'm still on the waitlist. Download link not working sounds weird
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.
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.
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 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.
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'm still trying to figure out why anybody uses ANY software of Chinese origin.
But all it needs to be is "fun" I guess. People literally don't think past that. Then they all do the surprised Pikachu face when something bad happens.
I've always hated TikTok, and avoided it like the plague. I'm not convinced it's a whole psyop or anything, but my trust of it is basically negative.
As for government meddling, I'm not sure yet how I feel about it in this case.
I like pixel fed, but like all federated websites, it doesn't have a lot of content yet.
HMU bb https://pxlmo.com/jakelec
once again tried to register. this time, the biggest instance doesn't even load.
It might help to pick a smaller instance.
pixey.org is a good one to try
Rough.
I wonder how easy it is to spin up your own instance. Or course, that's out of reach for most non-technical folks.
Is that like a federated version of flikr?
I think it’s supposed to be like old instagram.
@surph_ninja old instagram was good as it was.