Ancestors

Written by Joe Rosensteel 🏳️‍🌈 on 2025-01-14 at 18:14

Ok… I downloaded the Pixelfed mobile app and created an account. I don’t love that it’s all owned by Daniel Supernault, since it could go very Matt Mullenweg. Onboarding experience could be better. The big Pixelfed.social server seems a little overloaded. Honestly, the thing that disappointments me the most is the image compression. I wonder if self-hosting has better control over that, but I don’t want to self-host (seriously, look at the instructions for that).

https://pixelfed.social/joesteel

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Written by Joe Rosensteel 🏳️‍🌈 on 2025-01-14 at 19:25

I was testing image bounds (NERD) and uploaded a pano. It never showed up. I selected some other images and it ate those too. So not sure things are going smoothly over there on mobile app launch day. The app didn’t report any error so … not ideal.

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Written by Joe Rosensteel 🏳️‍🌈 on 2025-01-14 at 23:24

Blogged a little about my first impressions of Pixelfed. Obviously, I don't want to judge them too harshly on the day the iOS app launched, but I'm working through my thought process in public from the perspective of an Instagram replacement.

https://joe-steel.com/2025-01-14-The-Quest-to-Replace-Instagram-Part-I.html

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Toot

Written by Joe Rosensteel 🏳️‍🌈 on 2025-01-17 at 19:30

I've been steadily posting a few photos over at Pixelfed (which isn't really "over at Pixelfed" since you could just as easily follow it right here in your Mastodon client of choice). It’s kind of a nice excuse to flip through old photos and pick ones. The account didn't exist before so no pressure to post what's currently happening or maintain chronological order. It feels silly to have to rely on hashtags so much, but there are upsides and downsides to no algorithm.

https://pixelfed.social/p/joesteel/785944684759468583

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Descendants

Written by Chris Pepper on 2025-01-17 at 20:32

@joesteel @ivory Can you make https://pixelfed.social/joesteel followable in Ivory?

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Written by Joe Rosensteel 🏳️‍🌈 on 2025-01-17 at 20:40

@reppep @ivory It already is. Maybe there was a formatting issue with your search? Try “@joesteel@pixelfed.social”

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