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Toot

Written by Fedi.Tips on 2025-01-15 at 17:21

As a little experiment, I've set up an account on Pixelfed to provide Pixelfed-specific tips and support.

➡️ @PixelfedHelp

I don't normally set up platform-specific accounts, but Pixelfed users are only able to see posts with images attached, so it's impossible for them to see most posts on FediTips.

To follow this from your Pixelfed, type this address into the search box on Pixelfed but without any spaces:

@ pixelfedhelp @ pixey.org

(REMOVE THE SPACES TO MAKE IT WORK!)

[#]Pixelfed #FediTips

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Written by Voxel on 2025-01-15 at 17:27

@FediTips @PixelfedHelp May I ask where this sudden growth of Pixelfed came from?

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Written by Fedi.Tips on 2025-01-15 at 17:32

@voxel

Because of Zuckerberg's speech where he announced that bigotry, hatred of minorities etc would be allowed onto Meta's platforms.

People on Instagram are looking for alternatives.

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Written by Narrowhouse on 2025-01-15 at 17:27

@FediTips @PixelfedHelp #PixelFed has potential to be a backbone part of the Fediverse and it deserves some attention!

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Written by Bill (he/him) on 2025-01-15 at 17:33

@FediTips @PixelfedHelp I think I was able to follow the account, my Pixelfed server is currently experiencing some load and acting funny as a result

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Written by repeatro on 2025-01-15 at 19:00

@FediTips

"Pixelfed users are only able to see posts with images attached"

Do you know if it's the same for GIFs and mp4 files? Is a mastodon post with one of these file types as an attachment shown to pixelfed users?

Thank you.

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Written by Fedi.Tips on 2025-01-15 at 19:11

@repeatro

Animated GIFs are automatically converted into silent MP4 files by Mastodon.

Yes, as far as I know these will show up as video clip posts in Pixelfed.

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Written by Vivian "Bigou" on 2025-01-15 at 19:54

@FediTips @repeatro Why does Mastodon do this convertion? Doesn't it use more memory once converted?

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Written by repeatro on 2025-01-15 at 20:48

@Bigou @FediTips

I assume not.

GIF is an uncompressed file format, causing huge file size in general.

Converting them to mp4 actually should reduce the file size.

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Written by Fedi.Tips on 2025-01-16 at 09:51

@Bigou

There is discussion of why this happens in this thread:

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/15471

Apparently mobile apps need this conversion to happen?

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Written by Vivian "Bigou" on 2025-01-18 at 10:44

@FediTips Thanks for the info.

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