As someone who used to self-host a Pixelfed instance (RIP), use it with caution. While it has a bunch of great ideas that I've praised, it is also buggy as hell.
this post was submitted on 22 Jan 2025
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How quickly did it burn disk space? I occasionally have to resize my Lemmy VM for the Postgres database, but I’m still on the free tier for object storage after like 1.5 years of running this. I would imagine a photo sharing site would crunch through disk a lot quicker though.
Thankfully, mine was a solo instance. That being said, the disk space was never an issue even when I was federated because remote images failed to load.
Haha, plot twist! That doesn’t sound very useful.
What bugs have you encountered lately? I've been playing around with it (only a couple of days now) and it's overall been very smooth experience for me.
Arguably the biggest selling point never worked: both remote and local images not loading.
Crossposted over to reddit. Posting here worked really well last time so:
If you’re on reddit and don’t mind being a fediverse evangelist, please go hit this thread:
https://reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1i7kbvt/fed_up_with_instagram_how_to_move_your_photos_to/
CNET let's go!!!
Can anyone recommend a good server for this? I'm looking for one that's federated with everything else.
https://pixelfed.org/servers/26/gram.social is run by Stux of mstdn.social so it will have a high degree of federation with everyone else.
I was never very interested in Instagram so I don't need to replace it. But I know some people who might. Before I encourage this, some very important question.
What is the porn situation on these? It might be unfair but my impression of all alternative image-sharing platforms is they exist primarily for the benefit of furies and hentai fans. There might be other stuff as well but like on tumblr porn was kind of the backbone. Is it like that?
or is there a viable way in a SFW fashion should you choose, and still have lots of content?
I just did this but I think it's heavily bugged. All the pics are imported, but only the description works. The image itself is blank