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   brent (stickfog@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Aug-2024 16:56:49 JST brent

   @Irishmasms Pixelfed.social works well for me

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     dansup (dansup@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Aug-2024 16:56:48 JST dansup

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     • David Zaslavsky

     @diazona @stickfog @Irishmasms How can Pixelfed improve on this?

     I love feedback like this because it gives me a chance to work on and ship an improved experience for all, so even if you've given up on Pixelfed, please let me know (in detail) how I can make it better!

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     David Zaslavsky (diazona@techhub.social)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Aug-2024 16:56:49 JST David Zaslavsky

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     @stickfog @Irishmasms Same. Though to be fair I'm only an occasional user... I was never on Instagram, so I don't care about replacing it, and I have not found #Pixelfed to be a suitable substitute for Facebook photos (or, for what it used to be).

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     David Zaslavsky (diazona@techhub.social)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Aug-2024 17:29:18 JST David Zaslavsky

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     • dansup

     @dansup @stickfog @Irishmasms Oh thanks for chiming in! I did not expect a response 😀

     Honestly, don't take what I said as an indication that you should be doing anything differently. I think the kind of service Pixelfed is trying to be is not the kind of service I want. I'm more interested in a service where I can upload a whole album of photos (whether that's 3 photos or 300+), optionally annotate them with captions and other metadata, and share links to specific photos or to the album, or to my profile which would display everything I've uploaded in a nice, easy-to-browse format. It seems like the Pixelfed experience (presumably like Instagram, and also like Mastodon and other vaguely Twitter-like services) is more about making posts which are meant to be enjoyed for a little while and then more or less forgotten - not that they become unavailable, they just become inconvenient to locate, share, and browse.

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     dansup (dansup@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Aug-2024 17:29:18 JST dansup

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     • David Zaslavsky

     @diazona @stickfog @Irishmasms Thank you for responding!

     I totally get where you are coming from, but I have changed my mind regarding Pixelfed being just a fediverse Instagram.

     For example, I added the Portfolio feature that is like a mini-profile you can customize and curate, check these examples:

     https://portfolio.pixelfed.social/dansup

     https://portfolio.pixelfed.social/earth

     In addition, I added Collections, an easy way for you to organize groups of posts

     https://pixelfed.social/c/530360750719739665

     I'm eager to hear how we can improve!

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     dansup (dansup@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Aug-2024 17:39:54 JST dansup

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     • David Zaslavsky

     @diazona @stickfog @Irishmasms Love the feedback, and will work on implementing them.

     Thanks for not giving up, and inspiring me to overhaul the compose process so you feel more comfortable using Pixelfed in those ways.

     People like you, and the feedback you shared, are so special.

     Your insights help us understand how to improve, and your continued engagement encourages us to keep pushing forward.

     Thank you for being part of the community and helping us build a platform that everyone loves.

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     David Zaslavsky (diazona@techhub.social)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Aug-2024 17:39:55 JST David Zaslavsky

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     • dansup

     @dansup @stickfog @Irishmasms That being said, *if* you did want to change Pixelfed to cater to the use case I have in mind, I think the two main changes that would make the difference for me are:

     - Add some way to upload a large group of photos and mark them as thematically related (e.g. all coming from one event) - this could entail raising the limit on number of photos in a post, or adding an entirely separate concept of an "album" or some such thing.
     - Have a way for a viewer to easily see and browse all the photos from a profile, or from a post or "album" or whatever. For comparison, right now if I look at my profile I see a list of posts but there's only one visible photo per post. I would want an interface that surfaces photos, not posts.

     P.S. Either way I haven't given up on Pixelfed, I'll continue to use it; it's just not often that I have a good opportunity.