Lots of questions about Pixelfed right now!

[feditips@social.growyourown.services]

Lots of questions about Pixelfed right now!

The most common Pixelfed questions are answered on the Fedi.Tips website at this link:

️ https://fedi.tips/pixelfed-photo-sharing-on-the-fediverse

If you want to find people to follow on Pixelfed, there's more info here:

️ https://fedi.tips/finding-people-to-follow-on-pixelfed

Here's how to import your data from Instagram to Pixelfed:

️ https://fedi.tips/how-do-i-import-my-instagram-account-data-to-pixelfed/

If you want to receive DMs from strangers on Pixelfed, you need to activate that option:

️ https://fedi.tips/dms-arent-getting-through-to-me-on-pixelfed-what-do-i-do

#FediTips #Pixelfed

[feditips@social.growyourown.services]

p.s. Please do read the link in the post, it really does answer a lot of common questions about Pixelfed!

Here it is again:

️ https://fedi.tips/pixelfed-photo-sharing-on-the-fediverse ️

[feditips@social.growyourown.services]

p.p.s. A lot of people asking how they can crosspost from Mastodon to Pixelfed. The answer is this:

You do not need to crosspost from Mastodon to Pixelfed. Your posts on Mastodon are already visible to people on Pixelfed, because Mastodon and Pixelfed are both part of the same social network.

(The same in reverse, posts on Pixelfed are visible to people on Mastodon.)

Some of the accounts you see on here are Mastodon, some are Pixelfed, some are other types, but you can follow all of them.

[valen1@mstdn.social]

@FediTips As always, fedi.tips is where the answers are.

[feditips@social.growyourown.services]

p.p.p.s. People asking about the "log in with Mastodon" option on Pixelfed, the short answer is: you probably shouldn't use this option.

Longer answer: the "log in with Mastodon" option on Pixelfed doesn't actually do what it claims. What it actually does is create a new Pixelfed account for you, and copies over some of the information from your Mastodon account onto that new Pixelfed account.

You end up with two separate accounts (Mastodon and Pixelfed) without any connection between them.

[ujeenator@mastodon.social]

@FediTips but does text only mastodon posts visible from pixelfed?

[feditips@social.growyourown.services]

@ujeenator

No, not any more.

There used to be an option in Pixelfed to optionally view text-only posts, but that's no longer there.

Crossposting wouldn't solve this though, because you cannot post text-only even if you have a Pixelfed account. There is no ability to post in just text on Pixelfed, it always requires an image or video clip.