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New #Pixelfed users: Please don't use the "official" app - it's really poor and has been that way since its existence. The photo sharing experience is horrible, and even the photo viewing experience is scuffed - the scrolling is choppy, alt messages don't show, it couldn't even display most photos properly in the correct size/ratio (same with uploading too). You might need it for certain features that are currently unsupported by the other clients (Pixelfed isn't the best when it comes to supporting their 3rd party clients/devs, to say the least), yet despite that, you will almost guarantee a much better experience using 3rd party apps than their own.

If you're on #iOS/#iPhone user: you're in luck cos you get to install #Impressia (formerly known as #Vernissage) which really is the (only) perfect Pixelfed app available, it's #FOSS and completely free on the #Apple App Store. I think it's also worth noting that the developer behind this amazing app is also building a (FOSS) federated photo sharing platform (akin to Pixelfed and #Instagram) of their own called Vernissage due to Pixelfed's own limitations/shortcomings - it's not available to the public yet I don't think, but might be worth going for in place of both Pixelfed and IG in the future.

If you're on #Android, you have several options including #PixelDroid but the most decent Pixelfed client I've found is #Pixelix. The app itself, from the #Google Play Store is not free but it is FOSS and you can still download and install it for free using its APK that you can find from their #GitHub repo. The photo viewing experience is great, the photo sharing exp is not as polished as Impressia (which is expected seeing how young the project is), but it is overall a very solid option and hands down better than the official app.

🔗 https://apps.apple.com/us/app/impressia-for-pixelfed/id1663543216

🔗 https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.daniebeler.pfpixelix

🔗 https://github.com/daniebeler/pixelix

🔗 https://vernissage.photos