Explore + Share beautiful photos and videos.

A fresh take on photo sharing. Get inspired with beautiful photos captured by people around the world.

  • Ad-free and privacy friendly
  • Open source and decentralized
  • Chronological feeds

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Features

A few of our most popular features.

Albums

Share multiple photos to create an album post

Comments

Express yourself with threaded comments

Direct Messages

Engage in private conversations with DMs

Filters

Apply that perfect filter to your photos

Likes

Show your appreciation by giving that post a like

Stories

Share an ephemeral moment that disappears after 24h

Privacy and safety built-in

  • Unlisted + Follower-only posts
  • Manually approve followers
  • Mute or block accounts
  • Report accounts or posts
  • Optionally disable comments
  • Limit DMs to accounts you follow

285K

people joined 1.2K Pixelfed servers and shared over 112M photos and videos!


Running your own server gives you the ability to set your own limits and rules.

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or create one

Join Server

Signing up on an existing server is the easiest way to get started using Pixelfed

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Self-host

Creating your own server allows you to fully manage your experience

Installation guide

The future is federated

Imagine being able to follow Twitter accounts from your Instagram account

We use the decentralized ActivityPub protocol so you can comment, follow, and interact with remote Pixelfed, Mastodon and Akkoma posts and profiles from your Pixelfed account as if you were both on the same website

Learn more about the fediverse


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ActivityPub users
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ActivityPub projects
285K+Pixelfed
Users

Pixel perfect photos in your pocket

Capture, share and explore from your smartphone.

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We need your support!

We're an open source project that is funded by people like you!

How to support our project

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  • Free to join, easily delete your account if you're not satisfied
  • No ads & Privacy focused - your data is not sent or sold to 3rd parties
  • Easily grow your following organically without algorithms limiting who sees your posts
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  • Free to join, easily delete your account if you're not satisfied
  • No ads and Privacy focused - your data is not sent or sold to 3rd parties
  • Easily grow your following without algorithms limiting who sees your posts

Sponsors

Our sponsors fund development and help sustain our project.
Contact us for sponsorship opportunities.


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