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 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