Decentralized Instagram alternative Pixelfed launches mobile apps : fediverse

[-] finley@lemm.ee 142 points 1 month ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

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[-] sjmarf@sh.itjust.works 24 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

~~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.

[-] stoly@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

I couldn’t find it in the App Store. How do you get it?

[-] Catoblepas 4 points 1 month ago

The screencap in the article looks pretty dark to me? Is there something that needs to be dark that the example pic doesn't show? Asking as someone that turns everything to dark mode.

[-] chris@lemm.ee 5 points 1 month ago

As of now, the iOS app does not have a dark mode. Though, I believe the Android version does.

[-] Ulrich@feddit.org 4 points 1 month ago

It doesn't.

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[-] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 70 points 1 month ago

No dark mode, no use.

[-] zerozaku@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 25 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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).

[-] woelkchen@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

PixelDroid is a client that supports dark mode.

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[-] TheFederatedPipe@fedia.io 31 points 1 month ago

I just installed and is pretty neat. Truly a photo first social media.

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[-] veganpizza69@lemmy.world 30 points 1 month ago

how are they paying for the hosting?

[-] Fitik@fedia.io 56 points 1 month ago

Donations and NLNet grant, you can support Pixelfed yourself

https://pixelfed.org/support-our-project

[-] addie@feddit.uk 24 points 1 month ago

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.

😥

[-] needanke@feddit.org 26 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] Gawdl3y@pawb.social 11 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] dance_ninja@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

Someone could just start a NSFW version, right?

[-] ryper@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

There's an "Adult" section in pixelfed.org's instance list

[-] italics2@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

https://pixelfed.org/servers -> Adult 😉

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[-] penguinclaw@lemm.ee 20 points 1 month ago

Really enjoying Pixelfed. In fact I have found it's fairly smooth going replacing Meta apps and Twitter.

[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 month ago

Is Pixelfed an appropriate place to upload an image to share on Lemmy / Mastodon?

[-] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 16 points 1 month ago

It’s doable, but you might as well just upload it here. But for smaller albums, it would be a good idea.

[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 month ago

What's the intended use case for Pixelfed?

[-] Blaze@feddit.org 33 points 1 month ago

Instagram replacement rather than Imgur

For that there is https://catbox.moe/ and https://imgbb.com/

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[-] RmDebArc_5@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 month ago

It acts as a Instagram replacement (but is actually about photos and not videos)

[-] Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io 12 points 1 month ago

loops.video is aiming for the video segment. Tho' it seems like one app for pix and vids would be nifty.

[-] RmDebArc_5@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 month ago

Pixelfed does videos to, and I think federation with loops is planned

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[-] Microw@lemm.ee 8 points 1 month ago

Whatever the usecase for Instagram is

[-] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 6 points 1 month ago

https://pixelfed.org/

[-] Shatur@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] MxRemy@piefed.social 6 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] umbraroze@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

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.

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[-] garretble@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago

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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[-] FundMECFSResearch 10 points 1 month ago

The Impressia for Pixelfed app has been serving me well the past 6 months.

[-] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 month ago

I was wondering about that app as I saw the listing. I'm glad someone likes it.

[-] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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

[-] Resonosity@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 month ago

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

[-] NineMileTower@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

That's odd. I've had the app for like 3 months.

[-] atro_city@fedia.io 5 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] NineMileTower@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

I like pixel fed, but like all federated websites, it doesn't have a lot of content yet.

HMU bb https://pxlmo.com/jakelec

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[-] aliser@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

once again tried to register. this time, the biggest instance doesn't even load.

[-] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 month ago

It might help to pick a smaller instance.

[-] little_beefy@lemm.ee 6 points 1 month ago

pixey.org is a good one to try

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[-] Carighan@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

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.

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[-] Blakdragon@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 month ago

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.

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