Vivi

i have a friend who uses it, and it works fine to see their posts.

This poster said in another post:

I only know some Arabic, Russian, and English, so I’m usually comfortable with just Russian and English. As someone who used to be transfem, I had to get used to changing the way I said things in Russian and Arabic now that I’m a man.

I assume it’s some sort of bot or troll as the comments/posts do not line up and most of the posts don’t really make much sense.

DDG uses Bing under the hood for the main results, so it doesn’t really matter too much in terms of results.

Yes, i really wish there was a good way to do pixelfed relaying.

You need to follow people for their posts to federate to your server. Posts won’t federate until you’re following a user and they make a post, or boost a post. Also, old posts won’t federate unless they are boosted/reblogged/shared. This is also how Mastodon works.

I recommend following as many people as you can, especially people who boost a lot, and following the people who are being boosted.

It takes a lot of effort to start the process up.

Also make sure that the AP and federation features are turned on in the env file, as i believe by default they are off with pixelfed.