It’s a ghost town (much like this comment thread). ;)
Being an early adopter can be boring sometimes.
I don’t know much about pixelfed. Is it comparable to deviantart or more like Instagram?
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.
ability to follow hashtags
Are hash tags working for you? Whenever I click on a hash tag, it takes me to a missing page.
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.
Hmm… that may be the case on some instances (e.g. pixelfed.social), but I know an account is not required on others because I’ve tested it on several instances without registering. The only one it breaks on is pixelfed.social, which unfortunately is also the largest instance.
But still good to know, thanks for pointing that out. It’s too bad the unauthenticated discovery is still broken, though.
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.
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!
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.
EDIT: Oh, I forgot to mention! I also kinda use it as image hosting for other apps! Only for pictures worth posting though, not trying to clutter it up. All my picture posts on Lemmy are stored there. If you put the direct link to the pic in the Lemmy image field, it shows up just as if you’d uploaded it directly to the post, no click-through necessary.
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
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.
