Why is it so inactive? I made an account and there are barely any posts or activity.
I moved from Instagram to Pixelfed around a year ago and went from barely anyone seeing my photography to literally no one seeing it.
I get likes on cat pictures and that’s it. The likes always seem to come after I go to bed so I assume somewhere else in the world is where the exposure is coming from
They don’t have proper “trending” page, that’s why it seems barren.
At least on Pixelfed.social, there are a lot of active photographers, both casuals and professional posting their work there.
Agree with this one
Wow, that’s incredible!
Cool, but it the more learn the more I find that I’d rather Dansup wasn’t becoming the darling of the fediverse.
Yeah he’s definitely up himself, and highly prone to preschool outbursts on Mastodon. No doubt he deserves plaudits for ambition and talent, but a bit more humility and grace would do him good. I’ve cringed at a few of his (often retrospectively deleted) posts unnecessarily slagging off other devs.
That said, I’m extremely grateful for what he’s trying to do, and his genuine desire to expand the fediverse.
I feel like Mastodon is the only one who did things right.
Isn’t Gargron regularly criticized by the community for refusing to deliver some features?
And he has turned over Mastodon to a non-profit company which should be able to gain more resources to develop Mastodon.
You’re free to start delivering code and release of your own! Dansup is walking, most of everyone else is talking.
From what I read he’s the sole dev on three different large projects and ignoring issue requests.
Well then, get working on the competition.
Opens a local pub, check m8
Issue requests or pull requests?
Fuck if i know
well if you read it it ought to be true
I didn’t remember which one it was. I’m not really a GitHub user. It said there were open issues for a long time.
Dansup is walking, most of everyone else is talking.
Isn’t that because Dan hasn’t open-sourced his project yet and doesn’t let anybody else contribute?
Isn’t that because Dan hasn’t open-sourced his project yet
Wrong: https://github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed/blob/dev/LICENSE
and doesn’t let anybody else contribute?
Hmm, while there have been 158 contributors, a very small percent were from the other developers: https://github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed/graphs/contributors
This information is pretty easy to look up.
I meant the Loops side of things, my bad.
Dansup is walking
Looks more like he’s juggling projects while riding a unicycle, and doing insult comedy at the same time. I think it’s fair to question the sustainability of this, and if/when he’ll publically self destruct.
what’s this mean? darling is a nothing word I thought? (Not best english)
Using “darling” like that isn’t common, but it has a positive meaning. They’re saying they wish Dansup wasn’t seen as highly valued as they are now. Probably for political reasons; i don’t know
It means the dev can be a bit of a dick, and it’s not always a great look. “Darling” in this instance means “face of” or “icon”.
Who isn’t from time to time? We’re in a era of sensitivity either way
I suppose, but he did start name-calling just because another developer had the audacity to start building their own fediverse photo sharing platform (Vernissage). Then apologised and removed the toot.
Bearing in mind the other developer also actually built a functioning and rather excellent third party Pixelfed app (Impressia) that he wrote because he got frustrated with the lack of development on the official Pixelfed app, which was available on app stores years earlier, it seemed beyond unnecessary.
FYI “darling” can also be used with a spouse or romantic partner. Your husband or girlfriend can be your “darling” just like “honey” or “baby”. It has a similar meaning in this case, where “darling of the group” means everyone really likes them, even if not sexual/romantic.
And this use, “darling of the ____”, is a slightly older, but relatively common, saying.
Why?
Let’s hope it delivers
awesome. I think this will really motivate people moving over to stay for a bit.
Anyone recommend a server?
I would not know really, but there is a a new one hosted by the Pixelix Client creator. He shared it somewere in his mastodon account.
Probably pixelix.social? The app website is app.pixelix.social 😉
I’m using Social.photo, tho’ I have no specific criteria, tho’ it has the distinct advantage that it is still up and running.
I’m the admin of social.photo. Thanks for joining! Lemme know if you have any questions or issues!
Thanks for ALL you do!!
Pxlmo.com seems good
The people there seem pretty chill in my experience so far.
