One thing I did not expect from the huge surge in pixelfed.social users: dealing with mod reports. It's not the volume that is the issue, it's the context and understanding them. Some of the reports are of posts in foreign languages, so I have to bust out Google and sometimes use AI, its not easy and takes my valuable time that I could be using to update our apps/projects. So that is why I'm building a new mod role/dashboard for Pixelfed. I can't do this all myself anymore, and that's okay!
2018: Started pixelfed as a side project, dreaming of doing it full time 2019: Still a closeted high school dropout working in the autobody industry, fixing vehicles 2020: I came out as gay, got my first NLnet grant and job in the webdev industry The pandemic really made me rethink my life, and now I'm living my dream after meeting the love of my life in the summer of 2020. A fediverse fairytale of sorts. Y'all helped me come out, and I'll never forget that. The fedi means a lot to me ❤️
The operational costs for: Now exceed $4,000 USD per month, we currently get $1,465 from Patreon. We could use your financial support more than ever while I build a foundation for long term financial support (think official hosting). Please boost 🙏
Pixelfed is bringing hundreds of thousands of users to the fediverse who don't know about federation. I'm now overhauling our onboarding in the app so new users can login and join without the complexity of federation. If you want to login to another server, you'll have to go into the options menu and select "Login to custom server". Say what you will about centralization, the people are looking for a stable and ethical home for photo sharing, and I have 7 years of experience providing one. ✨
Added some custom badges to our main git repo, using the open FediDB API! You can get one for your project too, just replace Pixelfed with your project slug https://api.fedidb.org/v1/software/pixelfed image
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Threads: Say hello to ads Bluesky: Ads are a possibility Pixelfed: Ad-Free Photo Sharing ✨
Anyone notice how faster pixelfed.social loads now? Will be bringing IG import back this weekend.
Software User Distribution by MAU #fedidb image
FediDB Server Directory is now ordered by MAU count, as that is the most relevant metric of activity. https://fedidb.org/network #fediDB