A while ago joined Pixelfed, and some things really confuse me …
1.) Licenses … on my older posts, the Image shows a content license (like, CC BY-NC-SA), but not on newer ones … there doesn’t seem to be a way to specify a license, or is there?
2.) Followers … some friends joined on other instances, and we followed each other … when I click their profile from MY instance, then I see only myself (seems like they don’t have any other followers on that instance).
If I visit their profile on THEIR instance, I can see they have more followers, but I can’t see the details without logging in (and the account from my instance doesn’t work).
Is that by design?
I can’t even see their profile picture from my instance … my posts seem to show up in their feed though …
3.) I’m using the official app, but I can only see my most recent posts … I made a few posts about a year ago and they don’t show up …
Can someone enlighten me here?
i experienced similar difficulties. what worked was to reshare my own old posts using the “double arrow”-icon, i think the servers see them as new content and sync it again (you can remove your repost afterwards, once it’s synced it stays visible.
setting the license type is only implemented on new posts, there isn’t any way to set them on existing posts, it’s probably on the roadmap with a low priority: https://github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed/issues/4525
When you start following and interacting with people on other instances, the federation kicks in and their content is slowly retrieved, but it can take a while depending on the load