Is that like a federated version of flikr?
this post was submitted on 14 Jan 2025
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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
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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.
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Is Pixelfed an appropriate place to upload an image to share on Lemmy / Mastodon?
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
It’s doable, but you might as well just upload it here. But for smaller albums, it would be a good idea.
I wish we could have multiple photos in posts here. Yes, we can put other photos in the description, but it would be nice to view all of them without opening the post.
What's the intended use case for Pixelfed?
Instagram replacement rather than Imgur
For that there is https://catbox.moe/ and https://imgbb.com/
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It acts as a Instagram replacement (but is actually about photos and not videos)
loops.video is aiming for the video segment. Tho' it seems like one app for pix and vids would be nifty.
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Whatever the usecase for Instagram is
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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.
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
I don’t know. Pictures of people’s dog and what they’re eating for lunch. It’s like subscribing to getty images.
The Impressia for Pixelfed app has been serving me well the past 6 months.
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once again tried to register. this time, the biggest instance doesn't even load.
It might help to pick a smaller instance.
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.
pixey.org is a good one to try