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Getting the hang of PixelFed

Feeding the pixels one bark at a time

Stuff we’ve learned #

The Humans have been working to set up PixelFed to manage the images they take of us
(because what other purpose is there for a camera?)

While doing so, they have found a few annecdotes and tidbits that they thought others might appreciate.

User-specific Discoverability #

To have your user account visible on the Directory page, you have to change your privacy settings from the default.

This wasn’t obvious to dad, but was simple to change once I helped him see what was pawsible.

  • Login to pixelfed
  • Look in the user-scoped drop-down upper right corner of the UI.
  • Click on the Settings element.
  • Click on the Privacy menu element.
    There should be several options to check/uncheck here.
  • The two elements:
    • Include public posts in search results
    • Show on Directory

Are likely what you want here :)

Miscief Managed!