I love pixelfed,I don't love the developer......this isn't going to do his already huge ego Amy favours
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Ok, so I spent the weekend getting my own Pixelfed instance working for my friends who want off Instagram.
My big question, is how do you discover new content?
Sure you can follow people on other instances, but how do you find them in the first place?
Also, basically all of the content I’ve been able to find so far has been artsy photos of fences and beaches and whatnot. It’s pretty and all, but there’s not much of humanity in my feed.
Search using tags like #comics or #food. That should give you an idea of how it works.
Edit: oh I might be wrong for new instances without established links.
It's really hard with small, starting instances.
Basically, the only content that gets federated to you is content produced by someone that a person on your instance follows. And once it federates to you, it becomes searchable and viewable to other members on your instance. Which means that the more people you have, the more content gets federated too you, and the easier it is for your users to find new content.
And new users that no one on your instance follows at all won't appear to any of your users in searches etc, which is where "boosting" a post comes in. If I post a photo, and no one on your instance follows me, none of your users will see it. But if someone that they do follow, follows me and likes my photo, they "boost" it, and then it appears in the timelines of people that follow them. And then once a single person on your instance starts following me, my future content will start federating to you.
Which means that as an admin, the best thing you can do is start up a seed account, and just follow lots and lots of people. Follow random people. Follow anyone and everyone, just so you get a critical mass of content sliding to your instance.
This is a problem that all fediverse platforms suffer from. The initial hump to get good visibility of federated content is a challenge. Once you cross it, you're fine, but to cross it, you either need to be patient and give it time, or you need to artificially kickstart it
How do you find someone on Instagram if you are not an Instagram user?
How do you find something on Mazda Forum if you are on Reddit?
How you find something on AVForums if you are on AVS Forum?
The fediverse has way, way, way more in common with the Internet of 2005 than it does with the Internet of 2025. You have to act more like it's 20 years ago.
Pixelfed not a centralized service. It's a web engine. It's something that lets you host your own photo sharing website. If you want to syndicate stuff from someone else's website, you need to find it on their website first. Fediverse websites just let you do the syndicating by automated request.
To initiate the syndication request, you take the post/user's original URL, paste it into your website's search bar, and then hit enter. It will request and fetch that content, creating a local copy for you. From there, you can follow the person who originally posted it, creating an auto-syndication relationship.
I love Pixelfed :3
(Hopefully they make the app good)
Doing more fedi posting on reddit. If you're on reddit and don't mind being a fediverse evangelist, please go hit this thread:
Should've set the goal at 100k for fulltime employment. These kinds of projects need that kind of dedication
Huge goals can scare off people from donating/financing
That's not huge. One year of employment is nothing for such a product.
It's a lot for an average donor, though. "Huge" is not in relationship to the project's needs. It's in relationship to what the donor thinks is a lot of money or not.
I agree, but there's still plenty of time for that to happen. I wish them all the success in the world.
As long as they reach the goal they keep everything donated including if it raises much more than the goal.
They’re already at 72k
That's good news. I imagine it will diminish quickly unless the story about TikTok is kept alive. The news cycle is mostly 1-2 weeks. Hopefully it'll have reached 100k by then.
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Fuck yeah it did!!!