jgrim

@jgrim@discuss.online

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pixelfed Uptick in Monthly Active Users⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I saw this 2 months ago. But my ADHD, Depression, & Anxiety have all been in full swing as of late because of many gifts of lemons from life. I wanted you to know that. I laughed then and still do now, when I’m finally responding after seeing the notification for two months.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pixelfed Uptick in Monthly Active Users⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey, sorry. I’ve been dealing with some ongoing personal stuff.

  There are no clear release versions in the repository; all work is done in the mainline branch, called “dev”. Therefore, you are not guaranteed to always use the same code as someone else on the same “version,” which makes debugging issues difficult. I had to build my own Docker containers when I first started hosting it because the ones provided didn’t work as expected. I’ve not tried them since. So, depending on your deployment process, this may not be an issue.

  New releases are often buggy and break existing functionality. Feature releases are slow and seem unnecessary when core features are incomplete or not working. The developer is distracted by other projects.

  There aren’t any ways to communicate and create a community unless you force everyone to follow a specific account from the start of your instance. Funding is challenging and becomes expensive due to image storage and bandwidth usage.

  I have other projects I contribute to; otherwise, I’d contribute to improve or fork Pixelfed. I want to reimplement many of the existing features.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's a good instance to be on at the moment?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Discuss.online is pretty awesome. 🤓

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pixelfed Uptick in Monthly Active Users⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, it’s not been easy to moderate, update, & use. If enough people are interested, I’m open to keeping it running as a closed instance. The biggest issue is that there isn’t an out-of-the-box way for me to message all the local accounts to discuss this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pixelfed Uptick in Monthly Active Users⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I hosted social.photo, which was a Pixelfed instance.

  I had an uptick in users when I started to consider shutting down the site. It was the reason, ultimately, I decided to shut down as soon as possible. The software is awful, and I don’t want to deal with the issues multiplied by growth.

  I decided to announce a shutdown by posting and hoping people see it because you can’t make an announcement to users on Pixelfed out of the box. I know there is an admin interface for it, but it doesn’t work.

  Afterward, many of my new users told me they came from other instances that shut down.

  This trend could be a blip as users create new accounts to migrate as they did before from their previous accounts. I know there is a user interface for this, but it doesn’t work.

  Or it could be the terrible spam filter that blocks real users and allows bots. So, real users aren’t there to report bots. This is compounded by an uptick in new hype instances. These are sometimes poorly moderated instances full of bots awaiting returning interest from their owners to get cleaned up or closed.

  Or it’s real!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What features are missing from piefed, or, why aren't we reccommending piefed instead of lemmy?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I know, I read it wrong :(

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What features are missing from piefed, or, why aren't we reccommending piefed instead of lemmy?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I know, I read it wrong. Because I’m a ding dong. :(

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What features are missing from piefed, or, why aren't we reccommending piefed instead of lemmy?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks, I’m a ding dong anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What features are missing from piefed, or, why aren't we reccommending piefed instead of lemmy?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Lmao, spot on! Thanks!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What features are missing from piefed, or, why aren't we reccommending piefed instead of lemmy?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I run a Pixelfed instance. The code is faaaaaaaarrrrr from polished. Its buggy and the admin interface either doesn’t work or is poorly implemented. I’d rather run and moderate Lemmy than Pixelfed. I have considered just shutting it down several times. I run the instance social.photo.