Yes, I have a user on pixelfed.social. I like it, and use it daily.
It is kind of like Instagram, but in the fediverse and is open source.
A cool feature Pixelfed has is the ability to follow hashtags, so your home feed will be a mix between posts from the users you follow and the hashtags you follow.
Is anyone using PixelFed? How is your experience so far?
Submitted 6 months ago by Blaze@reddthat.com to fediverse@lemmy.world
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makmarian@kbin.social 6 months ago
yo_scottie_oh@lemmy.ml 6 months ago
Are hash tags working for you? Whenever I click on a hash tag, it takes me to a missing page.
makmarian@kbin.social 6 months ago
Yes, the hashtag feature works for me. Are you logged in to Pixelfed? It seems like you have to be logged in to be able to see the hashtag feed.
aasatru@kbin.earth 6 months ago
I have posted some pictures I've taken from hikes, and check in now and then when I feel like posting something or looking at pictures.
My experience is very different from what other people here seem to report. I am just posting into the void, I have posted 11 pictures to date, and I never linked the account to anything or told anyone about it. Still I have more than 50 followers, only from people who stumbled over my content and decided to follow. I'm only following half of that number, so it's not a politeness thing.
I've also gotten a few comments, though mostly people just click like and/or boost. It seems every time I post something I gain at least a follower or two.
So overall I'm pretty impressed by PixlFed. If you have something to share it's a good platform to do so. And there's nice landscape photography on there, at least.
Blaze@reddthat.com 6 months ago
Interesting, thanks!
UnfairUtan@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I used to be into Instagram for the photography communities, now I’m exclusively using Pixelfed.
It’s obviously not as good, and there isn’t as much account variety, but it’s getting there!
MxRemy@lemmy.one 6 months ago
I use it fairly frequently and enjoy it! My instance is Pxlmo but it hardly matters, federation doing its thing and all. The official app is quite buggy atm, but not unusably so, and it’s fun to watch the updates slowly improve things. I do follow a lot of people who are actually on mastodon but only ones who mostly post pictures anyway, so they fit better in my pixelfed feed
Etnaphele@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Interesting tip on linking the url, I will try it. Tested it in the past but I think I did something different and didn’t work as I hoped
MxRemy@lemmy.one 6 months ago
Interesting, maybe it didn’t used to work! It does have to be the direct link to the image, if that helps. Like, “right click on image, open in new tab”, then use that link? The link to the post itself doesn’t do it.
Blaze@reddthat.com 6 months ago
Interesting, thanks!
Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee 6 months ago
I haven’t figured out how to find good photographers to follow but my last two posts there has both gotten over 25 likes which is more than I used to get on Instagram so I guess that’s something. My only complaint is how much they scale down my pictures and absolutely butcher the quality.
meldrik@lemmy.wtf 6 months ago
This is a setting by the admin of that Pixelfed instance. Try another instance, if you are unhappy with the quality.
Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Well damn. I already copied my entire Instagram library there so I guess I’ll just deal with it.
ericjmorey@discuss.online 6 months ago
Since storage costs money, does it allow the admin to offer tiered access to higher quality storage?
Crumbgrabber@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Pixelfed is awesome. Like a lot of Fediverse things you have to follow just about every hashtag to get enough content. I love particularly all the human made art, although I also follow a lot of AI art. Compared to other social media it is oddly peaceful and calm, no ads, no algorithm forcing engagement means you can safely go down some obscure rabbit holes and keep your peace of mind. Fediration itself between softwares is a work in progress, Lemmy/Mastadon/Pixelfed often does not work and even migrating all your follows from one instance to another isn’t user friendly too. Considering that all this was done without billions of corporate dollars and with volunteers doing all the work, its a nice place to visit.
mannycalavera@feddit.uk 6 months ago
Sign up on mobile was absolute trash, completely buggered and I had to sign up over the web in the end (which then told me my username was taken FFS). A big put off.
Love what the dev is doing, but he needs to get the basics right before plowing ahead with features.
mbirth@lemmy.mbirth.uk 6 months ago
Instagram for geeks. My geeky followers follow me there, the normal people are still on Instagram where I post the same.
aCosmicWave@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Not a big fan of the name. Even PixelFeed would make more sense.
scytale@lemm.ee 6 months ago
“Fed” pertains to federation so it kinda works. Compare that to Lemmy or Mastodon that have no relation at all to the fediverse (AFAIK).
aCosmicWave@lemm.ee 6 months ago
I’m a huge fan of the fediverse and I didn’t even get the fed reference haha. A typical user surely wouldn’t get it either!
electricprism@lemmy.ml 6 months ago
Agreed, IRL people say the same thing and stuff like eww The Fed.
Not sure what he’s supposed to do about it now, even PixelMail could have done the thing explaining that its federated
Plopp@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I use it a little bit. I think it’s pretty good but I don’t come from Instagram or anything like that, so I had no expectations. And I only use it very sparsely. I’m guessing that if you’re a heavy browser you might run out of content. But for me personally such platforms are more for posting photos than endless browsing.
I’m not the biggest fan of the UI of the official app, but it’s not bad bad.
AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 6 months ago
The official app appears to be written in React Native and is as laggy and janky as you’d expect. Other than that, more people are using it (and/or interacting with it from elsewhere in the fediverse).
yo_scottie_oh@lemmy.ml 6 months ago
It’s a cool concept, but not quite production ready yet. It’ll be much more viable once the explore/discover pages and hash tags are fixed and federated.
noodlejetski@lemm.ee 6 months ago
I do have an account (and PixelDroid installed on my phone), but most of the accounts I’d follow there I’ve already got added to my Mastodon, so I don’t check it that often.
Merlin@discuss.tchncs.de 6 months ago
I like it but I wish I can migrate my account. When I moved to a friend’s instance I had to manually upload all the photos and descriptions . I wish it was like peertube where I could just sync .
wjrii@lemmy.world 6 months ago
You mean the thing for hosting galleries because Lemmy can’t do that yet and Imgur won’t work on Mobile without an app? Yes.
As a social network? No, and even when I tried it wouldn’t let me switch my post’s visibility from unlisted to public, so I shrugged and used it as an image host as I’d originally intended.
chemicalwonka@discuss.tchncs.de 6 months ago
I used to use but no more because there are few users
Omniraptor@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Can someone less lazy than me explain how it’s different from sharing images on mastodon or it’s alternatives?
lemmyreader@lemmy.ml 6 months ago
MakePorkGreatAgain@lemmy.basedcount.com 6 months ago
tried it for a bit. not much going on there. got bored & quit
hanrahan@slrpnk.net 6 months ago
Yes I’m on it, and don’t post much, I guess to dip my toe to check it out but while I take photos for myself I don’t look at the photos of others. I was never on IG at all so …
HawlSera@lemm.ee 6 months ago
What IS PixelFed?
hanrahan@slrpnk.net 6 months ago
A little IG like
demesisx@infosec.pub 6 months ago
It’s a ghost town (much like this comment thread). ;)
Being an early adopter can be boring sometimes.
DmMacniel@feddit.de 6 months ago
I don’t know much about pixelfed. Is it comparable to deviantart or more like Instagram?
cyborganism@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
Federated Instagram
Blaze@reddthat.com 6 months ago
More like Instagram from what I’ve seen
Blaze@reddthat.com 6 months ago
Interesting, which instance are you on?
demesisx@infosec.pub 6 months ago
the most mainstream one for the moment.
aniki@lemm.ee 6 months ago
I have a bit on pxlmo