Adam

Why do you think it’s badly federated? I’ve never been unable to find my peertube account from anywhere I’ve tried - Mastodon, Firefish, Friendica, Pixelfed, or Lemmy.

And Firefish has so many more bells and whistles than that! Full-text search, antennas, quotes, drive, pages, channels, MFM.

omg yessssss

Love it!

Added bonus: people won’t think they’re being invited to quickbooks.social anymore ;)

Me too! And stoked to see if they actually make calckey.social magically transform into whatever [newthing].social is!

I used firefox and didn’t have a problem. I’d double check that you grabbed the JSON archive from IG. You should contact Dansup though because it should be working. I think there might be “contact admin” link on the upload page.

I think it just comes down to what you said: do you really want an experience like IG? If you’re a hard no, it’s probably not for you. I was kind of in the same place as you re: IG. Looking at my IG feed it’s about 50% recommended and promoted. So half my feed is what Meta wants me to see. It sucks now and I was over it. But a version of that without ads or algorithms is honestly pretty great – and I was skeptical of that until I tried it. I mean, IG has higher engagement than any network except TikTok, so it’s a format that people seem to like. They just hate the Meta part :)

I don’t think it takes away from Mastodon at all though. Like, I’m using Calckey which is very similar to Masto (and being renamed in literally 40 minutes) and it’s not harming the community at all. I think Pixelfed will probably be the thing that makes people realize how powerful the Fediverse is. To most people, being able to communicate between, say, Masto and Misskey probably just seems like having different clients. But the idea that you could communicate with all of Facebook and Twitter from an IG account is kind of mindblowing.

Have you contacted your admin? It should be working. I imported like 800 photos from IG on pixelfed.social a few days ago.

Coming soon!

It’s mostly just media first but there are a few features that don’t federate. Portfolios and stories are exclusive to pixelfed. And even if you just want to scroll a bunch of photos there just isn’t a better way. They have the best Fediverse app I’ve ever used and the experience is great because it was designed specifically for that purpose.

Not that there’s anything wrong with not seeing the appeal. The best thing about the Fediverse is that you can just be wherever you want. So you can post on Mastodon and follow whoever you want on Pixelfed too without having to make another account.

I chose my instance because of the admin (Stux). Basically, I knew that I could trust that it would be well run and have great moderation standards. It’s a small server for now and pretty sleepy. Most of my subscriptions are from lemmy.world and a few other larger servers but it doesn’t matter. I guess “local” might be less useful but that doesn’t bother me. I can say that, over the two weeks I’ve been here, I haven’t experienced any sort of performance issues or downtime.

The one case where I could see it being important is creating new communities – it’s probably more likely to have one take off on a larger server.