25.6K photos imported to https://pixelfed.social since the wired article hit 🚀

Working on some import improvements (IG broken text encoding, webp and videos, mass delete processing imports)

Good Morning!

Def a surge in signups on pixelfed.social but overall pretty small as it seems the surge was spread across pixelfed.org/servers!

Now let’s get the @pixelfed app ready for the app stores 🚀

FSEP looks interesting, and @pixelfed will do what we can to support it!

Btw I wrote a mastodon to pixelfed blocklist converter, https://dansup.github.io/masto2pixel/

https://nivenly.org/blog/2023/08/10/federation-safety-enhancement-project-announcement/

Philomena Cunk on fediverse, exploring the wonders of the so called fediverse and interviewing developers and random users

I would watch the heck out of that

Thank god nexopia/old myspace is gone, I can barely handle the G+ cringe 😂

I found a screenshot of G+ Circles circa 2011 on an old phone.

You can see individual pixels, such a different time

10K posts from Instagram have been imported to pixelfed.social in the past 12 hours 👀

The queue is processing recent imports (no backlogs), and has kept up wonderfully with the surge!

Good morning!

I updated https://pixelfed.org/mobile-apps and fixed the TestFlight link!

Omg it’s everywhere

mad men, more like mad dan

That groundbreaking @pixelfed recovery feature that powers "I forgot which server I joined" is open source and can potentially be used by other projects with some adjustments!

https://github.com/pixelfed/recovery

I mean it looks complicated in the video because I moved so fast but it really is simple haha

Please take a minute to watch my latest @pixelfed ad and like and subscribe!

I love making these 😎

https://mastodon.social/@pixelfed/110877137905311128

pre-pixelfed vs post-pixelfed

I was working on a twitter alt but seen pleroma and started over with a new idea, photo sharing

@pixelfed was born a month after the first pic

Also I should mention how 💅 it is that @pixelfed is the only fediverse project that supports both MySQL and Postgres (and soon sqlite)

You can also use your database as a queue instead of redis, which is okay for smaller instances

It's technically possible to run pixelfed with a sqlite database, though I can't guarantee that every SQL query is supported atm

I'm working to remove Redis as a dep

and

add basic sqlite support for one-click installs (meant for low use instances of 10 or fewer users)

Can you imagine, we don't require npm so this could be as easy as WordPress to install, or easier with a no-config sqlite db

pixelfed.social is running on a single 16G intel optimized droplet, with an 8G database server (and another potential replica)

we should have no problem accommodating a few thousand new users, last nov we peaked at more than double current MAU

that being said, I'm ready to scale out, and laravel supports read replicas via easy config (and horizon is scalable)!

pixelfed federation is highly optimized (inbox and async concurrent outgoing), as are most APIs except the home feed, which I'm fixing

I can't wait to work on backend perf improvements and ship the new home feed logic, backend dev is my passion and dealing with scaling/perf issues is so rewarding.

Who spends their weekends wanting bursty traffic to highlight bottlenecks -> this weirdo

For the record, I'm incredibly proud of @pixelfed and the Wired article, but it won't change the promise I made to myself when I started this project

I will remain humble, and I want y'all to keep me humble, because @pixelfed is a community build by many people

I just wrote some code

Y'all made this relevant ❤️

Sorry #PubKit, I think it's time I drop everything and focus on the @pixelfed app and a public release.

All those long nights working on backend scalability and performance improvements are about to be put to the test

I wasn't anticipating this attention for a few more months, but I'm ready 😎