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      It has a dark mode now (on iOS, at least. Maybe they’ve got a different codebase for Android)

      Edit: Scratch that. Only the login flow has dark mode.

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            did you know the singer for the offspring came up with that line when he was working in lab- he was making petri dishes and you make them hot and then cool them to a certain temperature… so he was trying to wrap up and the petri dishes weren’t cooling down quickly enough, so he moved them all apart to allow air to flow between them and kept saying “you gotta keep em seperated” in his head, and then used this one riff they had while they were working on the album with that line. come out and play was the last song they made for that album

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            Keep your reels off Pixelfed please. Use loops.video instead.

            Pixelfed is a photo sharing platform

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                Yes, Pixelfed should 100% definitely not have reels. Reels and videos belong on something like loops.video or Peertube and not on Pixelfed.

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                  Then allow users from one platform to use their ID on the other.

                  In fact, using fediverse social networks made me realize how much I could use a single point of identification for all the services. Like a fediverse passport or SSO.

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      The screencap in the article looks pretty dark to me? Is there something that needs to be dark that the example pic doesn’t show? Asking as someone that turns everything to dark mode.

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        As of now, the iOS app does not have a dark mode. Though, I believe the Android version does.

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            Weird. I feel like at some point I remember it having a dark mode on one or the other. Wonder when and why it was removed.

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                Hi! There was actually an official Pixelfed client in beta before the current one written in react native. And it did have dark mode support as well.

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                No? Huh, I could have sworn I had downloaded an APK and just assumed it was the beta. Haven’t had an Android in a year, though, so I might just be misremembering or thinking of another app.

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      There are tons of apps which don’t have a dark mode and you are writing off fediverse app just because it doesn’t have it. Fediverse apps should be supported instead being judged harshly.

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        And I don’t use them, either. I’m a contributor to multiple Fediverse projects, including Lemmy-based apps and full identity management with ActivityPub. We do not deserve to get held to lower standards if we want the Fediverse to grow, especially when it comes to features that are about things like eye comfort, which can be a mild accessibility issue for some.

        Dark mode is a basic necessity in apps today. It’s not a convenience, but a necessity for adoption. There are many people who are going to open the app, then never use it again because of something that’s bog-standard in the libraries and should only take a few hours to work in, which should have been done before an announcement.

        So yes, I speak up, because I want this to succeed.

        Edit: And yes, I’m very excited to see the growth achieved in the other post. Fantastic news.

        @[email protected], @'ing you so I’m not responding in two places 😉 I appreciate the work of the team, but it doesnt change the fact that to many, this is a showstopper and I’m pretty surprised it wasn’t considered as a basic UX requirement pre-launch (see other comments in response to you).

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    Absolutely NO sexuality explicit content. This includes, but not limited to, images/videos/chat around sexual acts. There are other places on the internet for this.

    😥

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    Really enjoying Pixelfed. In fact I have found it’s fairly smooth going replacing Meta apps and Twitter.

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      It’s doable, but you might as well just upload it here. But for smaller albums, it would be a good idea.

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      I’ve been doing that exact thing, but only as long as the images would be Instagram-worthy in the first place. Not just temporary junk. I figure it’s probably more optimized for picture storage, since that’s the whole point right? Plus then I get it two places instead of one!

      If you use the raw media link itself instead of the link to the post, it displays on Lemmy exactly the same as if you’d uploaded it here in the first place. So that’s nice.

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      Well that’s the neat part, you don’t! If you post on Pixelfed you’re already on Mastodon.

      …I suppose you can reshare it if you want. Me, I just point people to my Pixelfed account on my Mastodon profile and vice versa.

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        I wonder if they were thinking like how before Reddit had image galleries, people would use imgur

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    Why is their top instance not compatible? Pixelfed.social gives me errors when I try to auth

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      I didn’t get any error. Probably just overwhelmed by new users 😆

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      It is compatible. You need to jump through the email confirmation hoop before it’ll actually work with the app though. So if your account is new, that’s probably the reason.

      Besides that, it could just be the mass influx of new users that are fleeing Instagram.

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    I have a Pixelfed account and have tried the app.

    But I can’t actually make posts using it. Don’t know where the hiccup is.

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        I wish there was an easy way to know which servers are getting hammered more than others.

        I can easily make a post to my server via the website, but the app was giving me trouble, as an example. That’s why I wonder where the hiccup is/was. Both the website and app are just interfaces to get data to a server, so if one doesn’t work I’d assume the other doesn’t too. But I dunno.

        Edit: After writing this I went back and tried posting from the app again. It finally worked! I guess things have settled down.

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          My guess, as a cloud developer, there may be a bottleneck at their authentication, or session management. Your web browser has probably been signed in for a while. I’m guessing your app hasn’t been able to get past that point, and is stuck in the bottleneck

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          For sure.

          That’s interesting that you were able to post via the website but not the app. It’s possible that you were lucky with the website being one of the requests that the server was able to handle, or perhaps the website and app use different pathways and the app pathway was more congested?

          Good to hear it worked eventually.

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    I’m a little underwhelmed by the iOS app itself, but the content is great

    Hopefully Pixelfed continues to bloom into a solid community!

    The app doesn’t really feel native, and doesn’t have features like clicking to enlarge an image. If it’s open source I’d look into helping though

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      I don’t know. Pictures of people’s dog and what they’re eating for lunch. It’s like subscribing to getty images.

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    It looks like the recommended Pixelfed instance, pixelfed.social, is running an outdated version of the platform. Aka the instance most new users will login to, and the one I created my account on last year. I guess I could make an account elsewhere, but meh. Hopefully they get that sorted

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      It’s as a reaction to the news about TikTok possibly being sold and people jumping to “Red Book”, the other Chinese platform. Maybe some people will read the TechCrunch article and consider Pixelfed.

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        I’m still trying to figure out why anybody uses ANY software of Chinese origin.

        But all it needs to be is “fun” I guess. People literally don’t think past that. Then they all do the surprised Pikachu face when something bad happens.

        I’ve always hated TikTok, and avoided it like the plague. I’m not convinced it’s a whole psyop or anything, but my trust of it is basically negative.

        As for government meddling, I’m not sure yet how I feel about it in this case.

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    On that note, has anyone here gotten into the Surf (the Flipboard thing) beta? I got in, but the download link does not work, but from what I understand that’s supposed to turn into a whole-federation browser starting with the microblogging sites (Mastodon + Bluesky + Threads), so I wonder whether they’ll add support for Pixelfed et al in the future.

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    once again tried to register. this time, the biggest instance doesn’t even load.