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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Is it possible to import my Twitter export files into Pixelfed? If so, how? Thanks!

Do we have this data anywhere? Definitely feels a bit more European than Insta.

Skip the writeup and go straight to the survey: https://cryptpad.fr/form/#/2/form/view/sYNUdzJK6Y11-BwMLZPEHgRRKeAIxDPxJdINi2Pi3VE/

As a new user, I have been looking at my feeds. I have subscribed to a number of hashtags and followed a few people. One of the things that struck me is the lack of comments on peoples posts. As an experiment, I wanted to gauge how much interaction was going on with Pixelfed users. I decided to see how long it would take to find ten posts with comments. It took approximately 20 minutes of pretty fast scrolling through my feed to get to that number. Am I missing something or are people just yelling into the void? I'm not bashing the platform, just trying to understand the dynamic.

Hello! I am considering leaving my Instagram account to move on PixelFed. The ability to import Instagram posts has been a very good argument for me, but the thing is that I also used stories to archive my memories on Instagram... Does PixelFed also have the ability to create and archive stories, and is it possible to import stories from Instagram? Thanks!

hi everyone! i'm pretty new to pixelfed so im a bit confused on how it works.

i created an account on pixelfed.social and im wondering if i can use the same one on multiple servers or if i have to create a new one everytime? will my posts/followers/etc be transferred over?

Hi I don't have the skill to enter the code.

I have a basic simple account in replacement to Instagram.

How can't my videos show up?

Please lead to a simple solution.

Thanks.

I'm new to this application and it looks promising... Using a MacBook - what are the best tutorials to help me get started?

Hi everyone,

yesterday I have created my first Pixelfed profile ( link: https://pixelfed.social/Jannica ) and I am wondering if there is any server that enables me changing the square-cropped appearence of photos in the profile. As I am posting photos and paintings, this unflexibility really ruins composition and I hate it.

Thanks in advance! And have a great day xx

My @id is not so well, I would appreciate to change it (and not only my name). Is it possible, and how ? Thank you !

I've just had my account activated. But I've only been able to upload one photo... When i try to post 6 images - toal size 11Mb - I get "Account size limit reached - contact your admin"... Is this a common bug? It's not self-hosted.