pixelfedOct 31, 2022

⚠️ We are working to restore pixelfed.social, the influx of new users across the fediverse overloaded the server.

We apologize for the inconvenience!

This latest growth spurt has highlighted some opportunities for performance improvements that will be rolling out later this week. #pixelfed

Show threadDerek BruffOct 31, 2022
@pixelfed Is this why I'm not able to attach an image to my post right now? #newbie
Show threadwakest likes your bugs ⁂Oct 31, 2022
@derekbruff @pixelfed its an unrelated issue. well related in the sense that both servers are overwhelmed by the same influx but pixelfed.social having issues will only affect users of that server
Show threadDerek BruffNov 1, 2022
@liaizon @pixelfed Ah, that makes sense. Still getting us to the server names here. I was thinking that might have been an image handling server, but it's a "regular" server.
Show threadwakest likes your bugs ⁂
@derekbruff pixelfed.social is an instance of Pixelfed which is a different type of software then Mastodon that you are using.
Nov 1, 2022 at 5:10pmWeb
Show threadDerek BruffNov 1, 2022

@liaizon Which is why I thought it might be related to my image posting problems... if Mastodon was using some federated image sharing tool like Pixelfed.

It doesn't matter. It's pretty clear at this point that none of these tools are going to make enough sense to me to use them.