Feel free to talk about anything, whether it’s vegan-related or not. This is a chill space for connecting, sharing ideas, and supporting each other; however, please keep in mind: vegans only, and we abide by the Anarchist Code of Conduct.

I'll post a quick update on things as a comment to this post shortly!

Be kind to all Earthlings! 🌱💙

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] Alliegaytor@vegantheoryclub.org 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

This is the first weekly thread since I've become an admin here. Just wanted to briefly update everyone on things.

There is a veganhomecooks (veganhomecooks.com) Pixelfed instance. It is able to federate images here as posts by mentioning the lemmy community in the body. (i.e. appending @homecooks@vegantheoryclub.org to a pixelfed post caption will make a post on the !veganhomecooks@vegantheoryclub.org community).

Unfortunately, under normal circumstances, comments only federate from lemmy to Pixelfed and not the other way around. I have developed two scripts that I periodically run to resolve the veganhomecooks comments and index them here, but it is a somewhat manual process as the Pixelfed instance doesn't allow scrapping (you need to be logged in to see the content). Rarely, this fails to work, so almost all the veganhomecooks comments can be seen here on vegantheoryclub. There is an issue with deletions not federating both sides, but it can be manually done if need be.

In my opinion, I think Pixelfed is not really fun to use as it lack even basic features like federating text only posts. I know it's meant to be for visual media only, but if a mastodon user can follow you and comment on your pictures and federate their own to you then I don't see the appeal of purposefully not receiving any of their other text posts. Mastodon feels like it can do much, if not all, of what Pixelfed can do, and more. Pleroma, Akkoma, and Misskey having even more functionality and interoperability than mastodon. I just wish it was a configuration option (that worked) to enable text only content, I really fail to see how it would undermine the experience of using Pixelfed or add much in the way of complexity to the project scope.

I'm curious if anyone else has any opinions about Pixelfed yet. I've only discovered text posts don't federate after making an account and using it so my expectations may be out of scope, but I don't see the appeal of this considering federation is a core part of why it's used.