So since I joined this Lemmy journey, I’ve started looking at other options and found Pixelfed. Does anyone here use it? How is the service? And can you link with Lemmy?

I saw it also uses the activitypub protocol, so I’m just trying to see how far this protocol reaches.

  • hare_wareEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I setup a single user pixelfed server for myself, so far the UI is pretty nice, I like it more than Mastodon, and self hosting was probably a lot harder than it in needed to be. I haven’t tried viewing my Lemmy posts from there, but I can look at stuff from Mastodon & visa-versa. I don’t I’ve gotten it to federate properly so I can’t say how the community there is, but look at the trending posts on pixelfed.social and pixelfed.art, it seems to be mostly photography right now.

    • FrostyEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I’m in the same situation. I spun up my own PixelFed instance on Vultr with BackBlaze B2 storage. The site works, but it doesn’t seem to federate correctly.

      • hare_wareEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Are you getting posts out but no posts in (unless you paste the link into the search box)?