Pixelfed got featured on the Wired and here’s what @dansup@mastodon.social, the author of @pixelfed@mastodon.social, says:
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All those long nights working on backend scalability and performance improvements are about to be put to the test
I wasn’t anticipating this attention for a few more months, but I’m ready 😎
The photo app that is terrible at telling me what is NSFW and what isn’t.
Literally, I had a picture on Pixelfed that was marked NSFW and opening it revealed a fucking tree.
Then I scroll down and I think, “oh it is another NSFW tree.” No it was an image of two people fucking." I don’t care if there is porn but the algorithm to determine what porn is on Pixelfed is shit. Make it work better or just give me a damn toggle to turn it all off.
Ok, yet another fediverse copy of a previous app where none of the people/things I want to follow are at…at least Mastodon has bird.makeup which clones twitter accounts so I can still see the people I follow who don’t use Mastodon.
Does Pixelfed have a version of that for Instagram?
I don’t care too much about interacting overall. Guess I will just stick with Insta
You know, on the one hand, I really want to support the Fediverse. But on the other hand, too much social media is bad. So it’s kind of a delicate balancing act.
Someone give me a hard sell here! Why should I use this app? I used to use Instagram (photographer/cinematographer), and I stopped using it because not just the tracking and all of that, but frankly, the content itself. Not to mention the algorithms are so busted and all they do is show me rage bait or flagrant ads disguised as content I would actually care about.
Why do people like pixelfed?
As with all the fediverse stuff, it feels like early Instagram when you weren’t bombarded by a million ads and celebrity bullshit all the time. It feels like a great community of amateur photographers coming together to share and be inspired again to take photos. That’s why I like it.
Sounds great. How does sorting work on it? Is it just who you subscribe to and show what was the most recent?
Yeah it’s either the latest from who you follow, local timelines or the federated one.
That’s great and all, but after you move, how do you get anyone at all to look at it?
