The official app appears to be written in React Native and is as laggy and janky as you’d expect. Other than that, more people are using it (and/or interacting with it from elsewhere in the fediverse).

Pixelfed is awesome. Like a lot of Fediverse things you have to follow just about every hashtag to get enough content. I love particularly all the human made art, although I also follow a lot of AI art. Compared to other social media it is oddly peaceful and calm, no ads, no algorithm forcing engagement means you can safely go down some obscure rabbit holes and keep your peace of mind. Fediration itself between softwares is a work in progress, Lemmy/Mastadon/Pixelfed often does not work and even migrating all your follows from one instance to another isn’t user friendly too. Considering that all this was done without billions of corporate dollars and with volunteers doing all the work, its a nice place to visit.

I have posted some pictures I’ve taken from hikes, and check in now and then when I feel like posting something or looking at pictures.

My experience is very different from what other people here seem to report. I am just posting into the void, I have posted 11 pictures to date, and I never linked the account to anything or told anyone about it. Still I have more than 50 followers, only from people who stumbled over my content and decided to follow. I’m only following half of that number, so it’s not a politeness thing.

I’ve also gotten a few comments, though mostly people just click like and/or boost. It seems every time I post something I gain at least a follower or two.

So overall I’m pretty impressed by PixlFed. If you have something to share it’s a good platform to do so. And there’s nice landscape photography on there, at least.

I use it a little bit. I think it’s pretty good but I don’t come from Instagram or anything like that, so I had no expectations. And I only use it very sparsely. I’m guessing that if you’re a heavy browser you might run out of content. But for me personally such platforms are more for posting photos than endless browsing.

I’m not the biggest fan of the UI of the official app, but it’s not bad bad.

ive set it up but yet to post. plan to soon

Can someone less lazy than me explain how it’s different from sharing images on e.g. mastodon?

I used to use but no more because there are few users

Not a big fan of the name. Even PixelFeed would make more sense.

You mean the thing for hosting galleries because Lemmy can’t do that yet and Imgur won’t work on Mobile without an app? Yes.

As a social network? No, and even when I tried it wouldn’t let me switch my post’s visibility from unlisted to public, so I shrugged and used it as an image host as I’d originally intended.

I like it but I wish I can migrate my account. When I moved to a friend’s instance I had to manually upload all the photos and descriptions . I wish it was like peertube where I could just sync .

It’s a ghost town (much like this comment thread). ;)

Being an early adopter can be boring sometimes.

Instagram for geeks. My geeky followers follow me there, the normal people are still on Instagram where I post the same.

I haven’t figured out how to find good photographers to follow but my last two posts there has both gotten over 25 likes which is more than I used to get on Instagram so I guess that’s something. My only complaint is how much they scale down my pictures and absolutely butcher the quality.

I do have an account (and PixelDroid installed on my phone), but most of the accounts I’d follow there I’ve already got added to my Mastodon, so I don’t check it that often.

tried it for a bit. not much going on there. got bored & quit