Irked by Instagram? Here's How to Move Your Photos to Pixelfed
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Preserve your photos by moving them away from Meta.
  • glans [it/its]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    3 hours ago

    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?

  • Tony Bark@pawb.socialEnglish
    10·
    7 days ago

    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@lemmy.federate.cc
      2·
      6 days ago

      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.

    • Corgana@startrek.website
      1·
      6 days ago

      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.

  • zabi94@lemmy.ml
    1·
    5 days ago

    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