Also, is there a good app for iPhone for it? I tried out Vernissage and it’s nice in some ways and confusing in others.
Never had an instagram account, but I have been uploading pictures to PixelFed. Nobody really comments or likes my stuff, but it’s more about curating some photos online that I can send someone a link to for fun on occasion.
Have you considered posting them on Mastadon too? You might get some interaction with such a greater userbase.
If you’re using relevant hashtags, then anyone browsing/following those hashtags would see the PixelFed posts on Mastodon anyway.
But you could create a Mastodon account and boost the Pixelfed posts for additional exposure as well.
This is only true if the mastodon instance in question has gotten copies of the post—if nobody on an instance follows your pixelfed account, and nobody on an instance follows an account that boosts posts from your pixelfed account, then (with a few exceptions) the post won’t appear in that instance’s Federated feed or that instance’s hashtag feeds
Yeah sorry, I assumed federation but I understand that isn’t always the case.
it’s more about curating some photos online that I can send someone a link to for fun on occasion.
I like this approach to social media.
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That’s so cool that you can import your photos from instagram. I’m always impressed by things like that. And yeah. It seems like Instagram is 95% ads and “Suggested content” or whatever. It’s really frustrating.
I am a proud user of PixelFed.
I’ve signed up for it. I didn’t use Instagram much at all and deactivated my account 3-4 years ago now so I don’t expect I’ll use Pixelfed much, but from what I’ve seen so far I would increase my usage of it if followed hashtags appeared in your feed.
Maybe I’m missing something, as I said I’m new as shit to it, but following people has them show up in my feed, following hashtags seems to resort in me having to just fuck myself. If that ever changes I’ll play with it some more.
That does seem like a pretty basic feature. I remember being baffled by Twitter not having it for a very long time.
(edit: also just discovered that comfort_zone already said this, for some reason other replies weren’t visible at the time)
I just discovered that on the web interface, you can see posts under a followed hashtag by going to “Discover” on the menu, then “My Hashtags”, but they don’t seem to sync from pixel.social (or whereever) to an app you’re using.
For iOS, Vernissage doesn’t seem to support hashtags, but in Tusker you can add the hashtag in the app, then see related posts by tapping “Explore” and then selecting the hashtag from your list that’s displayed. Or you can also pin in to the top as a custom timeline by tapping the setting button at the top on the main screen, and adding your hashtag from there.
Which… I guess may make more sense than putting them in the Home feed to prevent tag abuse?
Hmm…so on that Discover>My Hashtags page, just on the website. I’m following a good dozen-or-two hashtags…I only seem to have three appear on that My Hashtags page at a time. And at random. What the fuck lmao.
huh, confirmed. I added 4 hashtags and it only displays 3.
Joy of software in development, I guess. Looks like there’s also a bug, in that sometimes after I follow a hashtag, I have to reload the page with F5 because it doesn’t do anything when I click menu options.
Lol fucks sake.
yeah, I’ve replied to one of the dev’s posts on mastodon asking about the only 3 hashtags part.
Ah I see where it is. Ya know…that makes sense and I think I can live with that.
I have the exact same complaint. From what I see you can browse followed hashtags in the “Discover” tab but even then - it’s showing the feed per hashtag, so you have to click each individual one to see the tagged posts and you can’t browse a feed based on all followed hashtags. This is very impractical, and I basically stopped browsing pixelfed due to this.
The PixelFed app is in TestFlight on iOS at the moment but the I believe it should be a full release in the near future according to the dev (@[email protected]).
Is there a way to sign up for the test flight beta?
If there are spots left, you can sign up from the PixelFed website.
Awesome, I was able to. Thanks!!
I use it in place of imgur at the moment.
I use the WebApp https://pxlmo.com/plantsandpots
I just created an account, https://pixelfed.social/supermurs
I am also on Pixelfed: https://pix.diaspodon.fr/@kevinronceray
Yes. Their app is in test flight right now.
Cool! How do I find it to download on testflight? do you have a link?
One way is to go to safari and click share and add to home screen. That will use their website but it looks like and app. https://pixelfed.social/i/web
There app is https://pixelfed.org/mobile-apps
it’s on their website! https://pixelfed.org/mobile-apps https://testflight.apple.com/join/dNcLnb1n
You can find the link to join the TestFlight beta on their website: https://pixelfed.org/mobile-apps
I don’t know the current number of spots available for new testers but they post on their mastodon account when they add more.
Nevermind I think I found it.
Yep. It’s my go-to replacement for DeviantArt and Instagram. Nice work they’ve done so far.
Oh cool! You access it from your computer browser?
I do. I also use Vernissage and a mobile browser. They all work well enough to enjoy the photos – which is the point for me. :)
I usually upload they to then share on Lemmy.
How do you do that?
Also why? Can’t you just add the photo directly in lemmy?
I signed up for it and have Pixelfed installed on my Android phone. I was planning to use it as a replacement for Imgur when I need a quick image hosting site to share a picture from.
It has great potential but seems stuck in TestFlight 😞
Sad day!
Keep in mind Pixelfed and it’s associated Applications are built by a one-person team.
But it does get better and better periodically, I love it and more and more features come over time.
That’s true, but that’s no good if it never hits the App Store. How am I to persuade my friends to use it when there are partially complete features and they aren’t going to sign up for TestFlight? (Which is full anyway.)
More of an Apple issue to be honest, when you don’t have a feature complete application it’s very difficult to push past TestFlight if you aren’t ready.
It’s got a strong Web App however that also works incredibly well.
That was really my point. Instead of adding extras. It would be better to finish the basic feature set and then release. If features are never completed because of the distraction of new features then an app will never be released.
Guess it really depends on what you consider “extras”.
It’ll get there, we are at 1.0.0 in testing finally, hopefully we will see it soon, but I wouldn’t say it will “never” be released.
It’s almost there.
But I’d been almost there for some time. In April it was ‘by the end of the month’ In May it was two weeks away. In June it became ‘soon’
I’ve been using Vernissage for the photos-only view and Tusker for a more instagram view. Tusker seems pretty good, multiple accounts can be used, etc.
