Pixelfed Smashes Kickstarter Campaign Goal on Day One
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Right, but hashtags only show posts on my instance which at the moment is just me.
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[email protected]replied to [email protected] last edited by
you take the post/user’s original URL,
Ok, but if I don't have an account on their instance, how do I even find their URL?
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[email protected]replied to [email protected] last edited by
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?
If you're trying to promote federation, this isn't the way to go about it.
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[email protected]replied to [email protected] last edited by
I think they're making it more complicated than it needs to be. On any other social media site, you find people by their username. So just ask for your friends username ([email protected]) and put it in the search bar and it'll come up. Using the URL can be convenient on desktop because you can just copy and paste it from the address bar when you're looking at someone's profile.
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[email protected]replied to [email protected] last edited by
That makes sense. It is a bit ironic. Like everyone wants to go back to old Instagram where you just keep up with friends, but I think we've all grown accustomed to our feeds and our friends don't have enough cute cats and dogs to accommodate our interests.
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hmm apologies, I didn't realize that personal instances were like that. I'm on pixelfed.de so I just shared what worked for me a few days
ago.I'm guessing you could search for a few accounts on various servers to follow directly who post with those hashtags to get the ball rolling?
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[email protected]replied to [email protected] last edited by
he's not even a bad guy he just gets a big head sometimes
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[email protected]replied to [email protected] last edited by
This isn't art, it's a platform, it's a tool more akin to engineering than painting.
Would you have this same response for x, Facebook, or truth social?
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Yeah, but that's the thing. You can only search if you know the exact username of the user on the other server. But you can't find usernames on other servers without creating an account there.
I wish it was more like Lemmy where you can browse other instances without an account at that instance.
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[email protected]replied to [email protected] last edited by
It's a fair point. But then in the case of a piece of (literal) art created by a computer program, who was the artist if not the programmer? In legal terms software is a work of creativity like any other.
Perhaps the important factor is how many people are involved. To be art, there has to be a single artist.
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if you feel ok sharing your pixel then I cab follow you there, might give you an in?
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[email protected]replied to [email protected] last edited by
If you don't hate bluesky, that's an option as well: https://fed.brid.gy/
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Have you ever noticed that people get all nitpicky when they want to distract from the original message?
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I use Instagram only for recipes. I hope to someday be able to replace that entirely.
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Thanks!
Though I appear to be having trouble having people follow me from other servers. I don't see you in my followers list, and when I tried following a test account on another server, I didn't see their posts. Not sure what's going on. Does it just take a while for the servers to sync?
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I think it may take some time to sync up. Cannot see your posts (yet). I sent you a Welcome msg as dm, did you get that?
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Yep. nothing yet.
