 I'm starting to notice some bad decisions I made regarding @pixelfed database structure In 2018 when I first started Pixelfed, I took a lot of inspiration from Mastodon, and while their DB structure makes sense for them, I'm realizing that it's starting to limit us Storing posts, replies, and shares in a single table doesn't make sense for us Fixing this will be fun, I love challenges and look forward to blogging about it after a seamless deployment. The goal is to make this unnoticeable 😎 We just shipped partial Account Migration support! This means: - You can migrate from other servers to Pixelfed We say partial, because we are missing one final piece to support outbound migration to Pixelfed, Mastodon or other platforms. That final piece will be shipping later today!   @pixelfed What about Instagram import? I’ve tried one today and even though it started migrating 56 posts nothing has finished migrating. People over profits is the real magic of fedi We're building the future ✨ No shareholders. Just people. Yeah, we'll probably see monetization and corporate interests join the fedi, and that's okay because the power of the protocol lies in choice And the best fediverse platforms are open source and mostly good stewards of AP interop Y'all made this happen, us devs can only take so much credit ❤️
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@dansup the natural state of the web and other technologies is federated. Think DNS, Web, Mobile, Email and now social media. Monetisation is not a dirty word because creators, developers, admins etc need to keep the servers on and the apps developing but profit maximisation above all else just for shareholders is not the goal of the fediverse. Money is another industry that needs federation. e.g bitcoin micropayments called SATs sent P2P over the lightning network is the future. Love the support, y'all keep me energized and hungry. Burnout? I don't know her 💅 Doesn't she rap or something?  wait! I can move my mastodon account into pixelfed? Without loosing ppl? Whats next? not loosing data? Dansup you are too kind for us. Love ya  The Masto compatibility is so cool, really reminds you it's the Fediverse and not a walled garden 👏  The @EUCommission has cut important funds for #FreeSoftware in a non-transparent decision. 💥 Raise your voice and take part in an ongoing consultation to ask for sustainable long-term funds for software freedom!
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@fsfe@mastodon.social The article has gifs that play without any user prompting, one of them kind of flashing, even if "reduced motion" is active in the browser. That's a serious accessibility issue (making it extremely hard for me to read, and flashing can trigger some forms of epilepsy), can you get that fixed please?  > ask for sustainable long-term funds We should stop begging for tax money and build our own fund by making our companies join initiatives like @copiepublique At the @nordunet conference in #Bergen presenting the @fediversity project. #fediverse #mastodon #pixelfed #matrix #ncn2024 People describe ATProto as federated, and that has always bugged me. And I think I figured out why. It's not NOT federated. But that's deceptively incomplete. It's much more complete to say that ATProto is brokered. I get why they do it. ATP describes itself as federated, after all. But there's a broker, and everything is mediated by the broker, which they name a "relay" (and used to call a big graph server, which was actually more honest).  You can't realistically run your own broker. It's enormously expensive, and also no one would trust it, or even know it exists. You have to connect to the bsky broker. Which means bluesky controls the network, and you have to have their permission to join it. This breaks one of the core, but often unstated assumptions people have about federated networks: that they are permission-less.
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 @ConnyDuck can I have the link? or better: is possible to add to obtanium?  Here is a use case you may have not considered for @pixelfed : Family Imagine being able to run a private Pixelfed server with your family, no federation, just sharing pics and interacting via the webUI or mobile app *a few moments later* Your kids are in middle school and you want to federate, but very limited - you can do this right now with Pixelfed Parental Controls We’re working to improve this even more with fine grained parental controls!
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@dansup @pixelfed That is awesome, except there must be for sure a hosting provider chipped in between. Otherwise, even though it might be a streamlined and easy setup of a Pixelfed server, the server hosting itself is rarely trivial. I would imagine something like @mastohost for Pixelfeds. :BlobhajReach:
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 @dansup is there any chance for raising the uploading limit for videos to at least 50mb? (30mb even) :). by day 1 i thought "interesting idea, yet another centralized system" by day 1.00001 i thought "how will they sustain themselves" by day 840 i thought "damn, they actually wont"  Here is a use case you may have not considered for @pixelfed : Family Imagine being able to run a private Pixelfed server with your family, no federation, just sharing pics and interacting via the webUI or mobile app *a few moments later* Your kids are in middle school and you want to federate, but very limited - you can do this right now with Pixelfed Parental Controls We’re working to improve this even more with fine grained parental controls!
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@dansup @pixelfed That is awesome, except there must be for sure a hosting provider chipped in between. Otherwise, even though it might be a streamlined and easy setup of a Pixelfed server, the server hosting itself is rarely trivial. I would imagine something like @mastohost for Pixelfeds. :BlobhajReach: Flickr, Instagram, 500px, Unsplash and BeReal are ok photo sharing platforms But, they are walled gardens, aren't open source and don't federate @pixelfed is in the perfect place, at the right time, to be able to disrupt this status quo We don't have investors, all we have is people, and together we can fix this The fediverse is a revolution, empowering the people, and reclaiming the digital landscape from the walled gardens No more settling, it's our time now ✨
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@dansup if any of those services started federating, but remained closed source, would that change your opinion? I ask because I’m working on something that is closed source, but will begin beta testing federation next week 😊 @pixelfed Solo could play a part in this, allowing you to focus on your photography on a single-user fediverse server, and allowing you to leverage the Pixelfed software to store, organize and backup your Camera Roll. If you're on iOS, we may even be able to leverage on-device AI APIs to stitch related content together or highlight important memories Oh gosh, so many possibilities 😎 Pixelfed has a lot of potential beyond social photo sharing... Imagine if you could use it as a self-hosted Google Photos or iCloud alternative while also being able to share specific photos via url, while also having a seperate public profile that you can easily share to. I might even build a seperate mobile app for this, so you can share media from your camera roll directly to your Pixelfed account with one tap. Don't give up on @pixelfed yet 😎
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@dansup @pixelfed
Years ago when i was younger i would suggest "procedure" approach -> move all DB stuff to as encapsulated procedures as possible (crud)
then making a migration BUT with stay on application side to procedures that are changed with migration.
Now? I dont know, i didnt thought about stuff like that for at least 4? 5? years as i am doing a bit different part of it development now then then.
@dansup I think this is just copying the Twitter concept of a tweet?
@dansup data architecture is often a gotcha. Good luck.