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Pixelfed is seeing a surge in popularity. Anyone that's currently running one, have you run into any roadbumps, or have things gone smoothly? pixelfed.social has had scaling issues, but maybe it's easier if you're just federating to that instance instead of handling the load from user logins?

Reminder to donate if you're using one of those servers btw:

https://mastodon.world/@paulschoe/113837760503316512

That #Pixelfed is now in the Top 10 of most downloaded APPs in the USA, also means that we, as a Fediverse community, have to come together.

If you see a link somewhere, PLEASE support your PIXELFED server. Even when it is just with $2, $10 or $50.

Their operational costs are surely skyrocketing and we have to make sure that this does not become a Fediverse debacle but a Fediverse success story.

[..]

https://pixelfed.org/support-our-project

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I've doubled my server load from one user.... to two.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

How big of servers are you using? Is the load just from syncing with pixelfed.social?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Pi 5 with a 1TB NVMe strapped to it. Pixelfed, so far, is sipping resources; Mastodon, on the other hand....

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

Pretty impressive you're running it on a pi, even with how nice the 5 is 👍

Are you running all of the services at grey.fail on the same pi?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Nope. I'm running three Pies and a custom UNRAID build.

Share the loooaaaaad.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 days ago

Damn even beating Bluesky, let's gooooo

#14 on Play Store

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago (2 children)

all this pixelfed talk is making me want to host my own instance.... I think I'll try to get one up this evening and reply to this comment once I manage to make an account and post somethkng

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

I’m now hosting my own Pixelfed instance (as of Tuesday). I really like being in charge of my own server…

The drawback I’m seeing is that Explore and search sometimes yield no results.

Like searching for “Nikon” just now results in “no content found” 🤷🏻‍♀️

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

I’ve wanted to for a long time but I want photos to be saved losslessly. I don’t want everything converted to JPEG.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Some instances like pixelfed.art have manual sign-up confirmation so I guess that doesn’t scale particularly well. On the other hand it prevents sudden spikes in active users. 😀 The sign-up queue was 8000 there the other day.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago
[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago (2 children)

More than Bluesky? Interesting. Did something happen at Instagram/Snapchat for this to happen?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago

Meta killed fact checking

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

i'm curious, too. the vague idea i got was that the app just launched, people are pissed at meta, and the word pixelfed was banned on a site, causing a Streisand effect. i could just be spreading rumors, though.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Pinging @[email protected] since you run social.photo as a sister site to discuss.online

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago

I see signups but no activity. I'm not really sure it's growing but people are trying it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I joined .social and opened my account / profile. I can scroll the feed and see posts but every time i try and post the app hangs for a few minutes then crashes. I had assumed it was a load thing but it's been nearly 48hrs now.

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

Same, a bit sad experience with login failures because the authentication process timeout. And slow refresh, hanging when scrolling... I am considering leaving social to go another instance. The point is like on Mastodon : if you are not on the main instance you will miss content, by design you get that split view of federated instances... It's anoying.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Try Pixelix.