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How to Move Your Instagram Feed to Pixelfed, the Photo App That Doesn't Track Your Every Move (www.wired.com)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/3228570

Pixelfed got featured on the Wired and here's what @[email protected], the author of @[email protected], says:

[...]

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 😎

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago

Hope this gets Pixelfed the attention it deserves. The app has improved so much in the last few months.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Kbin/Lemmy is the only Fediverse thing I've been able to get into...Mastodon and Pixelfed just don't have the things/people I want to follow. I only use Mastodon here and there thanks to the bird.makeup instance which clones people's twitter accounts. If I didn't...that feed would be a ghost town...Is there one that clones Instagram for Pixelfed?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Defo check out firefish.social if you’re not into Mastodon. It’s got a lot of lovely features I wanted out of other mastodon apps.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Yeah. Firefish is to Mastodon what Kbin is to Lemmy

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Cool, thanks for the info!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Is there an android app?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yes, but it isn't on f-droid or google play.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

The apps are listed on the official website. The official app is in public beta, but I hope it gets a public release soon. You can follow @[email protected] on mastodon for updates. There are also 3rd party apps, but I haven't tried any.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Pixelfed for iOS (Beta) still refuses to upload any of my photos from my iPhone.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

Ultimated Privacy Achieved!! lol

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Thanks for this, registered on the .de site and the app seems to work. Now to post some photos....

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

they got stories?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I am fairly certain they do.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

The backend capabilities are there. The front end for the Web view must be enabled by the admin and the mobile apps currently lack the feature.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Yes. Scroll to the end https://pixelfed.org/features

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

@bady i haven’t used instagram in some years, it i still have a lot of photos and memories saved there from way back when. i might do this…

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Awesome! Now, if only I could move my Mastodon toots or PixelFed photos to another server. Sure, I can redirect my accounts, but then I’m stuck with the old content on another feed.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Has this actually worked for anyone? I click on Review Uploads and the website either crashed or nothing happens.