Gregory's Server
I'll be updating https://fedidb.org tomorrow to fix excessive caching leading to day old results, improve graphs and add a few new API endpoints!
 @dansup Haha this account tricked me too, but the CIA would not write "we spy on you' into their description/bio. 7 hours later, 9000+ instagram posts have been imported into https://pixelfed.social Can't believe that! 🚀 At Pixelfed, we believe in the power of community and creative expression. Custom algorithms and bring your own domain are interesting features, and would be a good challenge I think 🤔
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 3600+ Instagram posts have been imported to https://pixelfed.social and the feature has only been available for 3 hours! ❤️
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@dansup Wow! I don't care for uploading photos to the Internet but that UX and the latency are quite good. The import status id backdating algorithm was the most difficult part of IG import. It supports up to 999,999 users and is properly ordered by date (and random id that is incr by day and rolls over to the next day with leap year support, that was fun) If @pixelfed ever needs to support more than 1 million users, I'll need to revisit the algorithm 😅 https://github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed/blob/dev/app/Services/ImportService.php#L12-L58 I was so hesitant on supporting IG import for the longest time because of handling zip archives, and even considered building a service that every instance would use. NLnet didn't like that, and it made me rethink the implementation and that's when the light bulb went off. Why upload the zip at all? Why not just unarchive it in browser and allow users to select the posts. This removes the server zipbomb issue, and is more privacy friendly as server only gets just the selected posts. Win 😎
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  When it comes to scalability and performance, @pixelfed is quite efficient and fast Being able to keep up with growth spurts as we experienced many times since last November was crucial to continued growth and stability We have a lot of room to improve this though, and I'm working on some pretty exciting improvements that will put us among the most efficient/fast AP implementations  Radiohead - Present Tense https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hgVihWjK2c #np #fediplay #radiohead
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 @dansup Presumably it will be import from JSON rather than HTML Daniel? IG gives us both options @dansup Do you have a time frame for the official release for iOS in Apples App Store? Just fixed rss/json feeds in the new @pixelfed blog! https://pixelfed.blog/rss/feed.xml Might add ActivityPub support to next.js 😉
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@dansup @pixelfed All in all working pretty good, but some file types from the IG export don't seem to even be processed. I described them in these GitHub issues: @dansup @pixelfed I'm having some trouble with it myself...it seems to have got stuck. I tried importing 100 posts and it basically went to this, and now I can't do anything with it? If I click Import, I can select the zip but it no longer shows the 100 latest posts that I wanted to import, only older ones. So I can't even 'retry' the latest import. Not sure how to fix or reset it...  Thanks for all the kind words! I’m getting close to releasing Import from Instagram!! I will be taking a lil vacation at the end of the month, we’re going camping! It will be a nice break and a chance to unwind. Still have 2 weeks to go, excited to ship some of these major features and improvements 😁 |
@dansup Love these charts, Dan!
@dansup Amazing Work !
@dansup didn't even know this existed but it looks really useful!