• UnfairUtan@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    2 months ago

    I used to be into Instagram for the photography communities, now I’m exclusively using Pixelfed.

    It’s obviously not as good, and there isn’t as much account variety, but it’s getting there!

  • mannycalavera@feddit.uk
    English
    8·
    2 months ago

    Sign up on mobile was absolute trash, completely buggered and I had to sign up over the web in the end (which then told me my username was taken FFS). A big put off.

    Love what the dev is doing, but he needs to get the basics right before plowing ahead with features.

  • Thorny_Insight@lemm.eeEnglish
    7·
    2 months ago

    I haven’t figured out how to find good photographers to follow but my last two posts there has both gotten over 25 likes which is more than I used to get on Instagram so I guess that’s something. My only complaint is how much they scale down my pictures and absolutely butcher the quality.

  • CRUMBGRABBER@lemm.eeEnglish
    7·
    2 months ago

    Pixelfed is awesome. Like a lot of Fediverse things you have to follow just about every hashtag to get enough content. I love particularly all the human made art, although I also follow a lot of AI art. Compared to other social media it is oddly peaceful and calm, no ads, no algorithm forcing engagement means you can safely go down some obscure rabbit holes and keep your peace of mind. Fediration itself between softwares is a work in progress, Lemmy/Mastadon/Pixelfed often does not work and even migrating all your follows from one instance to another isn’t user friendly too. Considering that all this was done without billions of corporate dollars and with volunteers doing all the work, its a nice place to visit.

    • edric@lemm.eeEnglish
      6·
      2 months ago

      “Fed” pertains to federation so it kinda works. Compare that to Lemmy or Mastodon that have no relation at all to the fediverse (AFAIK).

      • aCosmicWave@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        I’m a huge fan of the fediverse and I didn’t even get the fed reference haha. A typical user surely wouldn’t get it either!

  • Merlin@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    4·
    2 months ago

    I like it but I wish I can migrate my account. When I moved to a friend’s instance I had to manually upload all the photos and descriptions . I wish it was like peertube where I could just sync .

  • Plopp@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    2 months ago

    I use it a little bit. I think it’s pretty good but I don’t come from Instagram or anything like that, so I had no expectations. And I only use it very sparsely. I’m guessing that if you’re a heavy browser you might run out of content. But for me personally such platforms are more for posting photos than endless browsing.

    I’m not the biggest fan of the UI of the official app, but it’s not bad bad.

  • wjrii@lemmy.world
    3·
    2 months ago

    You mean the thing for hosting galleries because Lemmy can’t do that yet and Imgur won’t work on Mobile without an app? Yes.

    As a social network? No, and even when I tried it wouldn’t let me switch my post’s visibility from unlisted to public, so I shrugged and used it as an image host as I’d originally intended.

  • Omniraptor@lemm.eeEnglish
    2·
    2 months ago

    Can someone less lazy than me explain how it’s functionally different from sharing images on e.g. mastodon?

  • noodlejetski@lemm.ee
    2·
    2 months ago

    I do have an account (and PixelDroid installed on my phone), but most of the accounts I’d follow there I’ve already got added to my Mastodon, so I don’t check it that often.

  • Hanrahan@slrpnk.netEnglish
    1·
    2 months ago

    Yes I’m on it, and don’t post much, I guess to dip my toe to check it out but while I take photos for myself I don’t look at the photos of others. I was never on IG at all so …