• Tony Bark
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    912 hours ago

    As someone who used to self-host a Pixelfed instance (RIP), use it with caution. While it has a bunch of great ideas that I’ve praised, it is also buggy as hell.

    • sparky@lemmy.federate.ccA
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      18 hours ago

      How quickly did it burn disk space? I occasionally have to resize my Lemmy VM for the Postgres database, but I’m still on the free tier for object storage after like 1.5 years of running this. I would imagine a photo sharing site would crunch through disk a lot quicker though.

      • Tony Bark
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        24 hours ago

        Thankfully, mine was a solo instance. That being said, the disk space was never an issue even when I was federated because remote images failed to load.

    • Corgana
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      19 hours ago

      What bugs have you encountered lately? I’ve been playing around with it (only a couple of days now) and it’s overall been very smooth experience for me.

      • Tony Bark
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        24 hours ago

        Arguably the biggest selling point never worked: both remote and local images not loading.