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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 hour ago

It looks like the recommended Pixelfed instance, pixelfed.social, is running an outdated version of the platform. Aka the instance most new users will login to, and the one I created my account on last year. I guess I could make an account elsewhere, but meh. Hopefully they get that sorted

[–] [email protected] 17 points 19 hours ago

Really enjoying Pixelfed. In fact I have found it's fairly smooth going replacing Meta apps and Twitter.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 23 hours ago (4 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 12 hours ago

It is compatible. You need to jump through the email confirmation hoop before it’ll actually work with the app though. So if your account is new, that’s probably the reason.

Besides that, it could just be the mass influx of new users that are fleeing Instagram.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Probably a max exodus from Tiktokers who refuse to use Instagram.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

id imagine most of those people are on rednote

[–] [email protected] 9 points 22 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 20 hours ago

Just need to check again later. I had this same error at first.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago (4 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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] 12 points 1 day 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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Someone could just start a NSFW version, right?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

There's an "Adult" section in pixelfed.org's instance list

[–] [email protected] 3 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Unless E2EE is implemented - the service owner can see all the messages, as they are stored in plain text.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 19 hours ago

So there's no E2EE on pixelfed?

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[–] [email protected] 140 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (31 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 day ago (26 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 19 hours ago

PixelDroid is a client that supports dark mode.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

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).

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