@Mastodon Congrats @renchap, the project is lucky to have someone with your level of expertise! 🥳

@Mastodon Wow, that's gorgeous!!

I dedicate the new v0.11.6 @pixelfed release to my cousin who passed earlier today.

This doesn't feel real, I'll never forget the good old days all the crazy shit we used to get into.

May we meet again ❤️

.@pixelfed doesn't have shareholders or advertisers that dictate our direction.

We have a community that is committed to evolving our project, where anyone can make an impact and help shape our direction.

I may be the "BDFL", but I try my best to listen and implement feedback when I can.

I just write code, y'all are the ones who are really building #pixelfed

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Feel free to boost/share 😄

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It feels like this will be a good year for the #fediverse!

Finding out that #mastodon got a grant from @NGIZero to work on Groups made my year.

I'm so thrilled they got accepted and will be working on this endeavour, this will benefit the whole fediverse! #activitypub

Less than 24 hours after launching https://translate.pixelfed.org we have 33 members who have contributed translations for 16 different languages on #pixelfed!

Thank you everyone! ❤️

@admin Nope, we only send stories to other pixelfed instances. We can't treat them as regular posts to other implementations because they have aspects that they don't support like stickers, layers and embeds.

Now I'm back on groups, I find the challenge is going to be discovery.

Using member count for suggestions probably isn't the ideal way to rank them. There is a section below the fold for groups your mutuals are in.

Any suggestions? #pixelfed #pixeldev #groups

So happy that people are using stories, even see a few federated ones 😁

How do you like the new stories? Anything we can improve? #pixelfed #askFedi

Decided to distinguish remote stories using a different colour ring. Wdyt? #pixeldev #stories

Pixelfed Stories will show you who viewed your story, we generate View activities to federate story views too! #pixelfed #stories

Added a few moderation tools to Groups in preparation for its release!

Group admins will be able to limit interactions for a period of time without removing members, and more! #pixelfed #groups #moderation

Federated Stories are almost ready 😁 #pixelfed #stories #activitypub

I wonder if any other #fediverse project is interested in supporting ephemeral stories.

#pixeldev #activitypub @activitypub

@mario Stories != Posts though, these are ephemeral stories, not posts.

Stories are not displayed in timelines as a regular post, they are a chronological collection of photos/video that can have different durations or attributes like disabled comments or actions ("swipe up" to be redirected to a custom url a user can set).

Ephemeral posts that get deleted are still pretty cool, but the UI/UX of :pixelfed: Stories are quite different than a simple expiry date.

Had to write my own story viewer component, goodbye zuck.js #pixeldev

Joining a group is cheap, leaving one isn't.

That's why I decided to make it harder than clicking a button.

I want people to know exactly what it means, and give them time to consider the action. #pixeldev #groups #pixelfed

I want Pixelfed to have the best Group implementation just to prove we can.

It took us so long to federate and get taken seriously, so I'm going all out on this. Can't wait to show you guys!

Polls will be released on Friday too, and they will federate with Mastodon compatible implementations!

#pixelfed #polls