Pixelfed is seeing a surge in popularity. Anyone that’s currently running one, have you run into any roadbumps, or have things gone smoothly? pixelfed.social has had scaling issues, but maybe it’s easier if you’re just federating to that instance instead of handling the load from user logins?

Reminder to donate if you’re using one of those servers btw:

https://mastodon.world/@paulschoe/113837760503316512

That #Pixelfed is now in the Top 10 of most downloaded APPs in the USA, also means that we, as a Fediverse community, have to come together.

If you see a link somewhere, PLEASE support your PIXELFED server. Even when it is just with $2, $10 or $50.

Their operational costs are surely skyrocketing and we have to make sure that this does not become a Fediverse debacle but a Fediverse success story.

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https://pixelfed.org/support-our-project

  • ZeroPhreak@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    29 minutes ago

    Some instances like pixelfed.art have manual sign-up confirmation so I guess that doesn’t scale particularly well. On the other hand it prevents sudden skills in active users. 😀 The sign-up queue was 8000 there the other day.

  • k0mprssd@lemmy.zipEnglish
    5·
    3 hours ago

    all this pixelfed talk is making me want to host my own instance… I think I’ll try to get one up this evening and reply to this comment once I manage to make an account and post somethkng

    • m_f@discuss.onlineOPEnglish
      2·
      6 hours ago

      How big of servers are you using? Is the load just from syncing with pixelfed.social?

        • m_f@discuss.onlineOPEnglish
          4·
          6 hours ago

          Pretty impressive you’re running it on a pi, even with how nice the 5 is 👍

          Are you running all of the services at grey.fail on the same pi?

    • jgrim@discuss.onlineEnglish
      4·
      4 hours ago

      I see signups but no activity. I’m not really sure it’s growing but people are trying it.