Banning gmail.com

pixelfed.de is banning signups from gmail.com email addresses. From today you will no longer be able to register an account using a gmail.com email address. During the last few days I have seen hundreds of spam signups originating from gmail.com, and during the last few months I have seen zero legitimate signups from gmail.com addresses….

On Donations

During the last five years I was repeatedly asked if and how one could donate to pixelfed.de. I always refused offers thankfully, because I could handle the cost of the instance privately, and that way didn’t have to establish channels to accept donations over. Now the whole fediverse grew tremendously since November, and I suspect…

Updating from below 2022-11-12: Manual intervention required!

If you’re upgrading our docker image from an installation done before 12th of November 2022, you’ll need to run a few commands manually on your instance, as the dependency on beyondcode/laravel-self-diagnosis was removed from pixelfed source. To do so, if you use docker-compose, run the following commands. Pull the new image and stop your running…

Pixelfed in Docker

I run pixelfed.de in Docker containers since it’s beginning, but the setup grew over time and became a bit messy. Now I finally got around to clean it up, and got to a state where – at least I think so – it’s quite simple so I can actually publish it for others to use….