 I'm working on a central link preview service for Pixelfed Groups, eliminating the herd of elephants problem when a post contains a link Instead of every Pixelfed server fetching that metadata themselves, they will request it from a single server endpoint that I will operate to reduce load on the origin I understand this may not be ideal, so I do plan on allowing admins to define their own server endpoint, and will be publishing the source code for our implementation! Pixelfed Groups are coming along, and I'm hoping to ship v1 this weekend! We're targeting Lemmy support and the Groups FEP for now, I cant wait to ship this 😎
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 I did a bunch of refactoring to separate Groups comments, hashtags, likes, media, statuses and other models from the main app for performance reasons, so it will be another day or two before it’s ready! Such a talented bloodline, and I can't get enough of this song! Bob Marley's legacy lives on ❤️ YG Marley - Praise Jah In The Moonlight Imagine your mom being Lauryn Hill and your grandfather is Bob Marley !!! I'm so here for it 🙏 The new Pixelfed app compose screen, it's simple and works well! Share Intents are supported as well, so you can share photos and videos from your Photos app directly to the Pixelfed app We just enabled GitHub Discussions for our mobile app repo, and added a new onboarding screen that will appear once you login to our beta app for the first time! We can't wait for you to see how better and faster our new app is ⚡️
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 @pixelfed I think it may be time to give Pixelfed another SERIOUS look, and dumping another popular social networking platform. That we really kinda don't even use. Hmmmmm Brother  Sounds great. Is there a plan for dealing with the bandwidth requirements and cost for any mildly popular Livestream? Loops and Sup will have seamless support with each other, and with the Pixelfed app. You can use any one individually, but they will work better together ✨ (We got y'all non-pixelfam covered too, login with your mastodon account into Sup and have the ability to view/share Stories) It's not magic, it's @pixelfed Pixelfed Live is so fun to use, and I'm working on making it even easier to use end-to-end. It's one thing to support Live Streaming, but it's a whole other thing to have that baked into an ephemeral feature that is accessible and more popular with the general public than a dedicated video platform or live streaming platform. I look forward to bringing proper live streaming to the fediverse, via @pixelfed, @loops and @supapp 🚀   The challenge with a federated DeviantArt platform will be payments, if they can offload that to a 3rd party by allowing users to add links to the store, it could work IMO Otherwise, each instance would have to host their own Stripe payments account, and other complexities Not to mention, giving Apple/Google Play 30% of the cut In @pixelfed, we're handling this by allowing users to add links to specific items that redirect to 3rd party platforms We can do this, watch me 😎  I'm so happy I added mass actions to the Curated Onboarding feature You may be wondering why https://pixelfed.social closes registration so often, and the reason is we get ALOT of spam registrations Our Autospam system prevents them from becoming a problem, but this eliminates potential spammers before they even get a chance Take a look for yourself, and remember most growth on the fediverse is spam. The dead internet theory is alive, and active if you pay attention. Most fedi devs don't 😉 A few people have asked about Unified Push support in the new Pixelfed app. This is something I'd like to support down the road, but for now we will focus on Android/iOS Push Notifications as they are more commonly used. I hope you understand my reasoning behind this decision, and am open to any help to get this supported sooner 😉 Wouldn't it be nice if you could press a button to test federation/mobile app support and diagnose any issues with instructions on how to solve the underlying issue(s)? We think so. Easier installation = Happier admins  I looked into dark mode support for the new :pixelfed: app, and while it's doable, I'm going to focus on Push Notifications before Dark mode support. I think most people would agree that Push Notifications are more pressing 😅
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 @dansup Though I'm using dark mode for its battery saving properties on an OLED screen I always liked the light mode. I wouldn't mind using it in the new app for quite some time. Added a nice lil animation and haptic feedback to the like button She’s really coming along 😁 @dansup What sometimes irritated my in the current app is that I can double tap an image to like AND to un-like it. I sometimes accidently removed a previous like. 🌟 Big news! The new Pixelfed app will introduce Collections. Curate and organize your favourite moments like never before. ✨ Coming very soon, along with federation support for Collections! How can we further improve Accessibility on the new Pixelfed app? Feedback and ideas greatly appreciated!
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 @dansup One thing that I think could help with the alt text is something that says "here's all your images without alt text, in order of engagement: you can enter alt text for them below." @dansup support LLaVA or similar model for alt-text generation describing images. The @IceCubesApp for Mastodon does this very well (see example image and auto generated alt text below) and may be worth a look. Also this article from @joe was useful for me in understanding where to start with this. https://jws.news/2024/how-can-you-use-llava-and-node-js-to-describe-an-image/ |
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