JavaScript
Live
Pixelfed
Ethical, federated photo sharing platform.
React
TypeScript
Type
JavaScript application
Stack
Vue, Laravel, MySQL
Year
2018
Duration
Multi-year
Overview
What I built & why
Federated photo-sharing platform built on the ActivityPub protocol. Open source Instagram alternative compatible with Mastodon.
No ads, no tracking, no algorithmic ranking — just photos and follows.
Highlights
Key deliverables
- ✓ ActivityPub federation
- ✓ Mastodon-compatible follows
- ✓ No ads or tracking
- ✓ Stories + collections
- ✓ Self-host first
Process
Challenge & solution
The challenge
A vendor lock-in clause forced a tight ninety-day migration window with zero room for service interruption.
The solution
Wrote a zero-downtime migration pipeline that mirrored writes to both systems, then cut over after a clean shadow-read week.
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