📢 📢"HARDCORE PIXELFED USERS" 📢📢 What do you think about creating a voluntary "discover system" for sharing (linking) other people's photos and accounts? Reasons behind this idea: 1. often, by chance, I discover good photographers and I'm like: "how have I missed this until now?" 2. boosts/reblogs don't work; 3. the Discover page only shows the top accounts all the time (same 7-8 people??). Which is great, they take briliant photos and deserve to be there. But it's not a Discover page, is it? It's a TOP/Trending page. My thoughts so far: 1. Come up with an hashtag and make it a weekly event (like caturday, doorsday, monochromemonday...you get the idea); 2. Publish a post with links to fediverse photos/accounts we like and keep it there for at least 48 hours; 3. 100% voluntary, no pressure, just giving back to the community. What do you think? Is it a stupid idea? How to improve on it? Let me know in the comments. RIP Yellow Mug btw, who died in the sink last week 🪦 #pixelfed
meoralis
@dansup What are the chances that post boosting on Pixelfed will ever work? Is this something in the pipeline, or is it technically impossible and we shouldn't get our hopes up? If boosting worked across all instances, I suppose there wouldn't be a need for additional feeds? When people ask why boosting doesn't work on Pixelfed, the more experienced users can only say it's a known bug, but this kind of implies it might work one day… There's a lot of guesswork around how Pixelfed functions and what its limitations are, which frustrates many users. I'd prefer it if we managed expectations upfront and transparently. A lot of us don't understand the tech behind the platform, so GitHhub lingo isn't really helpful when trying to figure out how to best use Pixelfed. 🥺 Perhaps you could host some sort of AMA for Pixelfed, where we could submit questions about its functionality (boosting, adding/editing hashtags, and commenting would be my top 3, haha)? It would be great if you could briefly outline the current state and your vision for the future.