tripu @tripu@social.cleverlibre.org

I criticise #Pixelfed from a place of love for #FLOSS, and gratitude towards @dansup and the rest of developers. I even contributed a tiny fix to the codebase myself a while ago.

Perhaps it's just that I dislike #Instagram and its UI so much that a copycat (even a free, open and federated copycat) simply isn't for me. I understand I should find an image-sharing project that better suits my preferences, and contribute to it, either with money or with code (my problem is: I haven't found any!).

Still, I felt like sharing my frustration about Pixelfed here — either to find agreement, or to be corrected.

✊ #Fediverse FTW!

#Pixelfed's major shortcomings, IMHO.
I realise some of these derive from the very proposition (ie, cloning #Instagram's horrible UI), and perhaps others are configurable or specific to my instance (#pixelfed.de). Still.

0️⃣ No distinction between “title” (short & descriptive; shown on media previews and thumbnails) and “description” (long text; on post pages only).
1️⃣ Images are too small (on my laptop, limited to 732 px in width); no “open largest size by default” or “full screen mode”.
2️⃣ Can't navigate between adjacent images; ie swiping or pressing →/← to move within a collection, tag, or profile.
3️⃣ Small thumbnails (mosaic on collection, tag or profile pages) don't show the (beginning of the) description.
4️⃣ Small thumbnails always indicate zero comments, even when there *are* comments.
5️⃣ Large thumbnails (entries on home page) aren't clickable; one has to click on tiny “x days ago” in footer.
6️⃣ New comments don't appear under “notifications” (/account/activity).
7️⃣ Collections are limited to 18 posts.
8️⃣ “Edit” action fails consistently.
9️⃣ Even short descriptions and comment threads are truncated/hidden (eg, 4 clicks are needed to reveal/expand everything on https://pixelfed.de/p/tripu/265782587476283392); text is squeezed in that narrow column.

I'm as delighted with #Mastodon (specifically with #QOTO) as disappointed with #Pixelfed
Isn't there a decent free and open alternative to Flickr, 500px, Instagram? 🖼️

«En 2019, la mediana del #salario mensual real de los #jóvenes entre 18 y 35 años era menor que en 1980, con caídas que van desde el 26% para aquellos con edades entre 30 y 34 años hasta el 50% para los de 18 a 20 años. Estas caídas se deben principalmente a una reducción muy acusada de la duración de sus empleos y a un aumento del peso del #empleo a tiempo parcial.»

— Fedea: “Lost in #Recession: #Youth #Employment and Earnings in #Spain”.

https://documentos.fedea.net/pubs/eee/eee2021-12.pdf

👏
#Brave $BAT #Mastodon #qoto

Inglehart-Welzel #world cultural #map #2020
https://www.worldvaluessurvey.org/WVSNewsShow.jsp?ID=428
#culture

#RunningSession 🏃 (yesterday)
6.04 km / 35′49″ @ 10.1 km/h ≡ 5′53″/km
~426 kcal

Happy #DocumentFreedom Day!
#DFD https://www.documentfreedom.org/

https://twitter.com/tripu/status/1377188012275064836

This is bad. Two wrongs don't make a right. Not to minimise the seriousness of #cyberflashing, but sharing with the world intimate/sensitive data/media without the consent of the other party is reprehensible (too).