dansupApr 14, 2023

Pixelfed isn't perfect.

People like you help improve and shape the project in many ways.

We listen, and love constructive criticism.

Please don't hesitate to give feedback on how we can improve our project!

I've replied to the harshest critiques and almost every time I'm able to resolve the issue and change the opinion of that person.

Pixelfed is powered by people like you, don't forget that ❤️

Show threadMariusz K. GrzecaApr 15, 2023
I have been using Pixelfed since late 2020 and basically throughout that time there has been a constant issue with federation reliability. The problem applies to both my own posts (sometimes they do not appear on the official Pixelfed instance, on pixelfed.de, or on mastodon.social) as well as the posts of people I follow (almost every day I can see that some posts from people I follow do not appear on my timeline). This problem also affects comments.
Show threadMariusz K. Grzeca
The second problem is the lack of a local cache for media from posts coming from other instances. With Mastodon, the server prefetches images at the time of federation, which makes scrolling through the timeline more enjoyable because you do not have to wait for the images to load every time. For example, with photos from the mstdn.tokyocameraclub.jp instance, images can take several dozen seconds to load.
Apr 15, 2023 at 4:36pmWeb
Show threadMariusz K. GrzecaApr 15, 2023

The third problem is the lack of proper boost /share support.

The fourth problem is the absence of posts from followed hashtags on the main timeline.