CNET: Fed Up With Instagram? How to Move Your Photos to Pixelfed

https://www.cnet.com/news/social-media/fed-up-with-instagram-how-to-move-your-photos-to-pixelfed/

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tonytins@pawb.social · 13 pts · 1y (5 replies)

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.

sparky@lemmy.federate.cc · 3 pts · 1y (2 replies)

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.

tonytins@pawb.social · 4 pts · 1y (1 reply)

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.

sparky@lemmy.federate.cc · 1 pts · 1y

Haha, plot twist! That doesn’t sound very useful.

Corgana@startrek.website · 1 pts · 1y (1 reply)

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.

tonytins@pawb.social · 2 pts · 1y

Arguably the biggest selling point never worked: both remote and local images not loading.

spaduf@slrpnk.net · 8 pts · 1y (1 reply)

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/

juli@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y

I only ever touch reddit with a redlib pole.

MyOpinion@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 1y

CNET let's go!!!

Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Can anyone recommend a good server for this? I'm looking for one that's federated with everything else.

wakest@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 1y

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.

zabi94@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 1y

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