Pixelfed Smashes Kickstarter Campaign Goal on Day One

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Yep. nothing yet.

Ada

That's an interesting idea. I was wondering how it would scale, but as the network grows, even if it just grabbed some random stuff from remote instances, it would still help it grow by giving the local instance plenty of content to seed from

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So if two people work together on a painting, its not art?

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Edge case! Maybe? Or a Beatles song written by John and Paul.

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Patiently waiting for my application to get accepted (ಥ﹏ಥ) how long does it take on average?

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I think in terms of fedi, it's fine. I mean plenty of people think Linus Torvold is an Ass, but we all love Linux for what it is.

Hanrahan

Hers a list of Fedi based projects where parople have said the same thing

*Mastodon
*Lemmy
*GotoSocial
*Bookwyhrm

Then step outside that
*Linix
*GNU

Then stuff like
*Meta
*Twitter
*Microsoft
*Apple
*Oracle
*AI

Do anything and some people will dislike you. I save my loathing for the commercial projects and the inevitable enshitiftacion of the internet that they necessarily add to.

Sean Tilley

To be fair, the flagship instance recently had a surge of 200,000 new sign-ups. Dansup mentioned to me that he's currently seeing like 50 new posts every minute. He's probably scrambling to upgrade infra.

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I had a feeling it was something like that I'm excited for the platform and for the future of the fediverse, and I hope the upsizing is as painless as possible!

LilaOrchidee

still nothing on my side. Not sure if that indicates problems with you instance config or something else..

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One that jumped out to me was folks bashing the security of mastodon because things like DMs were visible to instance admins. Like yeah I guess it's not great, but I trust my DMs with my instance admin more than fucking Musk...

Sean Tilley

I actually wrote a bit about this in the past: https://deadsuperhero.com/2021/10/peertubes-content-wasteland/

TL;DR - Yeah, it's possible to fill up your local catalogue of remote entries really quickly through instance following. The problem is not a shortage of instances or videos, the problem is that cutting it down to the good stuff requires a lot of active curation. It's very easy to just open the firehose and drown in a never-ending stream of junk.

Ada

Interesting. I feel like that might be less of an issue for the microblog fediverse though? It doesn't have the same problem with content generation

Sean Tilley

Yeah, I'd say it might have more to do with the fact that making texts posts is a lot easier than making videos. It's still possible to introduce too much noise, regardless of medium, but there's a lot less friction when the medium is simpler and doesn't require much work.

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I have these same issues with mine. Checking the logs shows the requests are coming through but nothing updates, which is annoying. I’m at my wits’ end!

After experiencing several other bugs I’m thinking of calling it quits and giving it time to mature a bit.

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I have to admit that the name hits hard. I had trouble setting up an account but I'll check it out once the servers stabilize.

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I read that as feces and got confused why it was pretty and all lol

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Yeah, I think it works fine-ish for a single instance, but federation needs work.

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It's some pretty good shit

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Pixelfed is growing like crazy (as always make sure to read the Y-axis labels)

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Hopefully they get good integration with Lemmy and get some of that content showing up over here too lol