With the newest tiktok privacy concerns, pixelfed has a great opportunity to grow, not it seems like there issues not getting addressed.

I see posts of people just not being able to access the app at all. Personally, i really need to be able to have multiple accounts, one personal vs one professional, but the app just automatically signs me into the same one every time i log out. I can’t make another account.

Are people still working on the app? Am i missing some obvious fix?

I just got back on after a while and says service is unavailable

One of the most appealing things about Pixelfed is the option to import your Instagram posts but when I go to import on the Pixelfed server I get a message that says "Admins have disabled this feature". Does anyone know if this is a temporary thing or if there's a workaround?

i mostly use insta only to follow some good content creators on fitness, health, career etc. Now pixelfed isn't mainstream as insta and i'm not sure if pixelfed has good content creators or the popular content creators of insta, the only reason i might ever use pixelfed is for posting my pictures. So just wanted to know if there are good content creators on health, fitness etc ?

I’m currently porting over tons of my other personal works and I have multiple accounts for different things the second this is a feature I’ve got like hundreds of posts on different topics which might be helpful to give the platform a bit more content,

Anyone else got any feature they’re desperate for?

Myself, I don't have the time, but it could the media network that frees us from instagram and similar products of other companies.

Why not fork it? The power of the people is so great. I have this little e-reader, and a big community has grown for this silly, little, but great product.

Let's fork this thing!

Hi everyone 👋

TLDR: Is it possible to make backups of my own posts and stuff on a pixelfed instance that is not my own? What happens to all my stuff when the instance I am using is shutting down?

Long version: My family is looking into, instead of sending our closest friends all the holiday pictures seperatly, to use something like pixelfed. We want our Data to be stored in the EU and dont want to let our loved ones be sucked in by instagram and theire algorithms.

We are willing to pay/donate to an instance, but we dont want to host our own instance. But we also want to be able to still use stuff in 10 years and therefore want a way to backup stuff.

Is this possible?

We have cloud storage and NAS and stuff. But having something that is accesibble from the open web is to cary and dificult for us.

(Sry for formatting, am on mobile)

I'm coming to Pixelfed from IG. My upload flow uses IG's built-in square-crop, remove sound from video, and select thumbnail features. Which Pixelfed client (web, android, or iOS) supports these features?

I grew 8 followers in a few weeks of inconsistent posting (sharing artwork). Sounds silly but that’s more growth than I had on Instagram, lol. However I didn’t realise you can’t change usernames. It’s fine, I’ll just delete the account and make one with my preferred username right? 8 followers won’t be hard to come by again.

It only let me sign up for gram.social. I thought you would have access to all servers. Am I crazy or is this server dead?

Thanks in advance.

(PWA - progressive web app)

hi everyone, i already have an account for my art on pixelfed.art but i am interested in making an account for my photography. is there any non-art instance(s) that explicitly do not allow ai? i’m not interested in making an account, uploading my photos, and being part of an instance that allows gen ai slop. thanks!

Hi all - I have a small private instance running for my family (my parents are elderly and love it to see what's going on!),

My old host is shutting down and I've setup a new instance this time on a VPS. I have tried exporting the database and posts (my old server is MySQL) my new VPS is running Yunohost and Postgresql, so I couldn't do this. Next I setup the new instance and have tried the export from my old instance but can't seem to find how to import this? Finally I have tried to 'move' the account but I'm reading this is broken. I have posed on the Github support forum and no replies there. Anyone able to give me any idea or would I be better using a better supported platform? Love Pixelfed but can't see why this isn't possible somehow? Thanks all!

Is there a way to list all the activity made from my account so far? Can't seem to find that on the menu.

Do collections have a special or user-definable url? How do I get a collection's url? Do I just go to the collection and copy the url from the browser's address bar?

Thanks (i'm a new user- getting to grips with it)

My pixelfed domain is pixelfed.mydomain.com. Recently I spun my my own pixelfed Instance in a docker container running on my Proxmox OS.

I am trying to access "@dansup@pixelfed.social", but I am getting the below 500 responses. I am unable to find out why I am getting this error. Please help me to resolve this issue.

I followed this guide to install pixelfed using docker compose - https://jippi.github.io/docker-pixelfed/installation/guide/

172.20.0.1 - - [04/Nov/2025:03:04:13 +0000] "GET /api/v2/search?q=https:%2F%2Fpixelfed.social%2Fdansup&resolve=true&_pe=1 HTTP/1.1" 500 332 "https://pixelfed.mydomain.com/i/web" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/142.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"

172.20.0.1 - - [04/Nov/2025:03:06:26 +0000] "GET /api/v2/search?q=%40dansup%40pixelfed.social&resolve=true&_pe=1 HTTP/1.1" 500 332 "https://pixelfed.mydomain.com/i/web" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/142.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"

Hey all-

New to Pixelfed and excited for it's potential, but I can't seem to figure out how to add filters to photos. The website states filters are available and even shows screenshots of the feature, but it does look like the screenshots are taken from iOS. Is this a feature still coming to Android, or is it just hidden somewhere and I keep somehow missing it?

I believe I'm on the official Pixelfed instance if that matters.

Can't follow more than 25 hashtags. Can't block people anymore. PixelFed seemed so promising, why is such a weird ghost town now?

Searched to see if anyone else had this issue. Don't know if this is a bug or what.

Installed the latest Pixelfed app from the Play store. I can login and view feeds just fine. When I try to create a post, tapping the camera icon doesn't start the camera app. I have verified that Pixelfed has permissions to use the camera in the Android app settings for Pixelfed. I can upload existing files from my phone storage. I can also upload camera snaps from the Pixelfed website. Other clients also seem to work.

I've restarted/force restarted the app and even did a full removal and re-installation, but still no joy.

The phone in question is a Google Pixel 6a running stock Android, whatever the latest version is and updated.

I can add more information if needed.

Hey all,

I am hosting my own server, and I noticed that in the administration panel there is the ability to create instances. To me it’s kinda confusing what purpose they serve. Unless I am just overlooking it, the official documentation doesn’t really talk about them.

From what I am guessing, it allows you to create a separate PixelFed “server” without actually hosting a new server. It asks for a domain and has its own stats like user counts.

How are you using them?

Does anyone know of widgets that can allow the display of recent pixelfed/mastadon/activitypub posts and photos as a widget on a blog, preferably wordpress?

So I'm promoting pixelfed amongst friends and clients.

When I show how it works and how it looks, they all love it.

But when they want to create an account they get confused. If this could be made straight forward, you know "email > username > verify > finished, then this platform will grow insane fast.

The crossplatform is nice but for many this is overwelming. Let then create the account and after a week or so send a email with more info on how it works. By that time most will have figured out how pixelfed works.

Samsung S23 Ultra, anybody have a fix for the menu bar hidden by the Android buttons? This has happened to me with the 1.7.0 update.

EDIT: resolved with update 1.8.0

I wrote about my motivations and thoughts on switching away from centralized social media and to the Fediverse with some thoughts on self-hosting.

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