• Captain Howdy
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    51 hour ago

    Why is their top instance not compatible? Pixelfed.social gives me errors when I try to auth

    • Dremor
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      240 minutes ago

      I didn’t get any error. Probably just overwhelmed by new users 😆

  • @[email protected]
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    103 hours 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.

    😥

    • @[email protected]
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      143 hours 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.

      • @[email protected]
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        52 hours 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
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      52 hours ago

      Someone could just start a NSFW version, right?

    • @GrammarPolice
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      15 minutes ago

      Are they spying on my chats? How would they know its contents?

  • Carighan Maconar
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    37 hours 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.

    • zerozaku
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      43 hours 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
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        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.

        @[email protected], @'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).

    • @[email protected]
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      If all the things in the work queue, you’re balking on a COLOUR SCHEME?

      That’s like stopping the construction crew for using the wrong colour work boots, man!

      • Carighan Maconar
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        No dark mode, no use.

        BTW, work boot color is absolutely regulated depending on context. For example here in Germany, if you work in sterile or food-related industries then shoes are to be issued and used with a color that cannot inherently hide stains by the material you’re working with, to prevent accidentally carrying contaminations into other clean zones.

        So yes, you would stop the construction crew for using the wrong color work boots.

      • @Nalivai
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        1410 hours ago

        It’s more like stopping the construction crew from painting your house a colour you hate. Which sounds more reasonable

      • Lemminary
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        3413 hours ago

        you’re balking on a COLOUR SCHEME

        How can I not?? Dx

      • ZeroOne
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        07 hours ago

        No it isn’t, if a modern app doesn’t have dark-mode to protect your eyes Then it’s a health-hazard

        • @[email protected]
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          Thats nonsense

          Literally spent 30 seconds on a Google before you start spewing lies like this.

          There’s a variety of reasons to prefer dark mode, but spreading fake health information isn’t valid.

          • ZeroOne
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            I spent reading books, before YOU started smearing a well-know fact as a lie It’s connected with causing myopia & eye-strains

            Your precious google won’t tell you that (Or maybe you simply clicked the first link that confirmed your bias)

              • ZeroOne
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                Pick up an opthalmology book, find it yourself & ask your opthalmology specialist Those are my sources & here’s a website too (do you have the guts to touch grass ?)

                I already mentioned it, it’s the same reason why we use blue-light filters & why we use anti-glare screen protectors

                But apparently a single “google-search” is enough for you

  • finley
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    I was a member of the beta, and one thing that app really needs is a dark mode.

    • @stoly
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      514 hours ago

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

    • Sjmarf
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      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.

        • @Zachariah
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          1520 hours ago

          you gotta keep ’em separated

          • Ben Hur Horse Race
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            1717 hours ago

            did you know the singer for the offspring came up with that line when he was working in lab- he was making petri dishes and you make them hot and then cool them to a certain temperature… so he was trying to wrap up and the petri dishes weren’t cooling down quickly enough, so he moved them all apart to allow air to flow between them and kept saying “you gotta keep em seperated” in his head, and then used this one riff they had while they were working on the album with that line. come out and play was the last song they made for that album

            • @FilthyHookerSpit
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              1215 hours ago

              I thought this was shit post or copy pasta but I’ll be damned. He did come up with that line while cooling Erlenmeyer flasks.

            • @Zachariah
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              516 hours ago

              …when the Undertaker threw Mankind off hеll in a cell, and plummeted sixteen feet through an announcer’s table.

        • Cyborganism
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          420 hours ago

          oooooOOOOOoooo!!! I didn’t even know about this. But yes.

          • madjo
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            Keep your reels off Pixelfed please. Use loops.video instead.

            Pixelfed is a photo sharing platform

              • madjo
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                11 hour ago

                Yes, Pixelfed should 100% definitely not have reels. Reels and videos belong on something like loops.video or Peertube and not on Pixelfed.

    • @[email protected]
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      421 hours 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.

      • pizzaboi
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        421 hours ago

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

          • pizzaboi
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            119 hours ago

            Weird. I feel like at some point I remember it having a dark mode on one or the other. Wonder when and why it was removed.

              • @AshMeshedUp
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                210 hours ago

                Hi! There was actually an official Pixelfed client in beta before the current one written in react native. And it did have dark mode support as well.

              • pizzaboi
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                113 hours ago

                No? Huh, I could have sworn I had downloaded an APK and just assumed it was the beta. Haven’t had an Android in a year, though, so I might just be misremembering or thinking of another app.

  • @garretble
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    1419 hours 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.

  • Avid Amoeba
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    1620 hours ago

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

    • @umbraroze
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      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.

    • Meldrik
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      1520 hours ago

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

    • Remy Rose
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      720 hours 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.

  • @aliser
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    719 hours ago

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

  • @[email protected]
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    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

  • @NineMileTower
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    921 hours ago

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

    • atro_city
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      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.

    • M137
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      420 hours ago

      The beta, not sure how you missed that.

  • Cyborganism
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    620 hours ago

    Yeah I tried the beta before. I just got a new smartphone so I’m happy it’s available I the app store.