I use the native app. I follow #tags rather than people. So i often go on public view to do some exploring. I am noticing a lot more products/service for sale images is there a way i can filter them out? I like it here as i know its generally not add based but pixelfed is starting to feel when small business inserted themselves into insta.

Hey, i have seen videos in my feed from people I follow but I am not able to upload myself, why? There is not even a option? anyone know why?

Is it a limitation on my instance?

I've just created an account and in no more than two minutes a huge vagina appeared on my screen. This is problem.

Not that I have something against vaginas on my screen, but usually it takes some effort and commitment to make them available for observation. This time it was...

Well, ok, I did switch to Global feed, and there was a sensitive content warning, and I did click "See post", but still it was too fast. It was a huge blurred square on my screen, obviously I had to unveil this mystery.

Now I can't recommend Pixelfed to anyone in real life, because these pictures are just a few clicks away.

How I think it should be: when you create an account, "Hide NSFW content" option is enabled by default and such posts do not appear in your feeds or search results. If you wish, you can go to settings and enable it. "Blur NSFW content" is another checkbox enabled by default.

Right now there are no such settings at all. All I've found - is a quest of just six simple steps of creating a new filter. A quest should be needed to enable these images, not to disable them.

I've been on pixelfed.social for a couple years now but, as you'll see if you follow the link, I use it primarily for art.

While .social has been fine, I recently realized there is a pixelfed.art instance & I would love to be part of a community that is focused on art rather than general photos.

My understanding of Federation is that I should be able to migrate my .social account over to .art, so I submitted a request with a link to my .social & verified my email. Two weeks later I have not heard back. Not even a rejection email.

So I don't know if they just don't like me, or don't like my art, or I did something wrong, or I'm just not cool enough to hang with the In crowd, i have no idea!

I think I'm just out of luck, right? Maybe I need to wait another month?

I'm used to ghosting from Dating app matches, but this feels bad, ngl.

Hello! Anyone who knows the best way to tag/menetion friends in my posts?

I wrote their whole adress and it opened on the browser instead of the app.

The problem with leaving IG behind is all my friends are on there. None of them are on Pixelfed.
Famous people with hundreds of thousands followers could change this. They have the critical mass. Their followers will automatically follow. Does anybody have direct access to such people? Who can then spread the word in those circles...🫤
EDIT : I meant celebrities, not influencers.

Heya, I post a lot of bugs. But when its not Solluna pictured here, it's mostly about the other arts Im into; music mostly but writing too. Im a bit of a nerd for a lot of different things so there'll be that too. I've already got a couple collages on pixelfed if you want to see more. https://pixelfed.social/nickelodean

One of my main uses of Instagram is basically following accounts that post funny tweets and such. Are there any such active accounts on Pixelfed?

How do I search on pixelfed

I can't find a search feature anywhere

Does it require an account? I've just been trying to browse, haven't signed up atm

My main account is on gram. I look at my gram account while logged in on a local, national server. I see only a few of my posts. Same if I search for an account on a local, national server, while logged in on gram. I see fewer of their posts.

I found an option in the official pixelfed app to disable stories, but the application is still pretty buggy so I prefer to use the web PWA.

Is there a way to disable stories from showing up on my feed on the browser layout?

I am asking because it was possible to import your instagram archive to pixelfed but recently read that it is not possible anymore.

Is it an instance issue? If so, which instance would you recommend that has this feature enabled?

When I add images to my post, they sometimes don't appear in the mobile app on Android. I only see them when I edit the post. It probably has something to do with the size of the image. If I load smaller versions into a post, they are easily loaded. My tests included images in JPG format with a resolution of 6542x4365. File size at about 15MB. I assumed that the images would be automatically reduced before uploading and that EXIF data would be automatically removed. Obviously, this is not so. I was able to download the images in the browser. All Exif data was included, the file was also identical in size.

Is there a setting somewhere that can be automatically adjusted before uploading?

What I also noticed is that there is no way in Android to display the alt text of an image or to enlarge it full screen. Surely the latter is a mistake? Is it?

the video is a bit obnoxious in its presentation but the ideas contained within seem like they would actually be super nice

I am still getting a new pixelfed instance up and I don't see anything like a feed relay like what mastodon has to pull in things on the server.

This is what I see when I log in as a new user (edit: since this screenshot I fixed the default avatars):

Right now it looks like pixelfed.social has an allow-list for who they allow to search and federate with, so I can't pull or search anything from there, but I was able to pull in the Europe user, which is why it's seen here.

I'd like to get things looking pretty interesting on the front page before I announce the service.
Does anyone have any tips or best steps?

I was thinking of whether to have a separate account that follows hashtags and then auto-sub new users to that account, or am I confusing with mastodon?

Thank you for the help and suggestions!

TL; DR; PNG resized to 1080 pixels on the short edge.

Just recently started dabbling with Pixelfed, but I couldn't find the best upload settings anywhere in the documentation, bar the 15MB upload limit. The server documentation states a quality percentage to use and boolean switches whether to resize and/or optimize images using aforementioned quality.

Turns out: images are by default resized to fit 1080 pixels on the short edge and are re-encoded using https://image.intervention.io/v2/api/encode set to the server's chosen quality percentage (which usually isn't advertised for instances but is 80 by default). Luckily, PNG is accepted nearly everywhere and its compression is lossless.

Those PNGs are way bigger than actual full resolution WebP's with a quality over 80% for my 24MP RAW exports. Most resized and optimized images tend to be smaller than 1MB, though, whereas the allowed PNG's are just shy of 3MB.

A full-res 24MP test image on 85% quality WebP dives well under that 3MB. Restricting to something more modern say 4K monitor resolution at 85% WebP would be well within current optimized file size ranges of about 1MB from my experiments with Darktable exports.

I can't change my profile picture on gram.social, the account linked to my mastodon account. has anyone experienced the same thing? I have another account on the same instance which isn't registered/linked with any mastodon account (registered via email) and I can change the profile picture.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/28252147

Fedicast / Podcast: https://audio.firesidefedi.live/@firesidefedi/episodes/dansup-pixelfed-loops-sup-etc

When creating a post, how do you tag users who are on different instances? For example, I'm creating a post on pixelfed.ca and I want to tag someone on pxlfd.ca. The tagging menu seems to only show users in the local instance. In the comments section, I have no problems mentioning users in other instances.

===Update - Apr 29, 2025===

I found a comment from dansup in issue 5885 on the Pixelfed GitHub. The inability to tag users on other instances is by design.

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