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Yeah, I’ll give that a try and see if they can increase storage per user and what I’d need to do to help with the load. I didn’t think to make the request on GitHub though, I’ll definitely check to see if anybody else made that suggestion/request and put it in if not.

That’s a good point, I’ll reach out to instance admins about that and see if that’s doable. Thanks for the suggestion!

Yeah, somebody else suggested that in another reply too. I’ll give that a go and hopefully that can address my issues with the platform. Thanks!

Running my own instance unfortunately isn’t a feasible option for me at this moment in my life. I’ll be looking into that in the future when I’m in a better spot but it’s not an option for a lot of creatives. I may have the technical knowledge to run and upkeep an instance but most artists aren’t that tech savvy. So this will remain a problem for Pixelfed attracting artists even if I run my own instance.

I wanted to pursue Pixelfed as an artist and post my work there but every instance I found seemed to have a 1GB storage limit which just isn’t super viable long term. Maybe if they have a way where individuals can link their own cloud storage service or something? If the instance owners don’t want to host all that media? That’s the main thing holding me back from investing more energy into that platform for now though. I’d love to be able to get away from Instagram but for artists it’s still pretty much required for anybody who wants to find clients (especially now with Twitter what it is).

Edit: some great suggestions in the replies, I’ll follow up with instance admins and see what solutions I can find that way. As well as looking into the request on GitHub mentioned by Gabe. Thank you everyone ☺️

I guess I am wondering why not just remove the insult comments as they broke the rules instead of nuking the whole thing?

My guess is that it’s just an equation of energy input and time spent. Is it worth removing the problem comments if they keep coming back? How much time as a mod are you willing to spend removing and banning people like that? I can understand taking the approach they did. Personally, I think maybe just locking the thread would’ve been a better compromise. But I’m not a mod here nor would I want to be lol

Filing that info for later, thanks!

Sync is the only app I know if that does that right now but I could be wrong.

Edit: and now I know Connect can too, there you go OP

It’s my turn to ask the question tomorrow morning, I call it.

I’m so happy this is the top comment when I came in here. We’re not centralized social media that requires constant content generation to acquire more views and we shouldn’t try to treat it as such. Donate to your instances when you can, contribute to communities you care about with posts/comments, and then when you reach the end of your feed log off. How forums are supposed to be imo.

I’d be surprised if you hadn’t read it already, it’s Mort by Terry Pratchett. I’ve been meaning to start Discworld for ages but kept finding excuses and finally started my journey reading them in chronological release order. I really wish I started this series sooner. What an absolute delight it’s been!

I keep seeing you pop up in comment sections. I almost finished my book last night just a few chapters left and I promise I’ll post something to your instance to promote activity lol

It’s like a Midwestern US word for surprise or exclamation, commonly used in place of “whoops” or even “oh”. It’s also common in Canada from my understanding. Somebody from lemmy.ca feel free to correct me there.

Nope, I have cats and it’s still only one way. I’m sorry but we can’t be friends with that attitude.

Unimpactful trait? I’d say if they put the toilet paper the wrong way, if you have to ask which way is the right way we can’t be friends. Also if they don’t return the shopping cart, instant way for me to lose respect for you.

I consider cats unethical but the other animals get a pass.

Source: I’m a cat owner

I just found it the other day and subscribed to some of the communities! I don’t have anything to post there myself just yet but am finishing up Mort now and plan to do a little write up. I always loved the quotes from Discworld but I really should’ve started reading it ages ago.

Gotcha, I misread your intention, my bad. I agree it’s less than great but unfortunately anywhere there’s people those types will eventually find their way. As we found with the centralized platforms and are now finding in decentralized platforms too. I like it a lot more on the decentralized platforms though, since they’re all pretty much contained to those instances that we don’t federate with so I never have to see them. I’m a NIMBY towards TERFs, racial supremacists, and anybody remotely similar lol

They have a ton of lgbtq, socialist, poc empowerment, and environmentalist newsletters you can sub to as well. Not sure what your point is, if you don’t want the toxic newsletters don’t sub to them? That’s like trying to disparage Lemmy as a whole because exploding heads exists.

That’s what I’m finding too, a lot of them give you just a couple paragraphs and then demand a subscription to keep reading. I’m all for supporting creators but a lot of substacks are so aggressive with it.