Pixelfed Pattern

Run a privacy-first photo sharing platform that's federated and fully under your control.

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Overview

Pixelfed is a free and ethical photo sharing platform. Run a privacy-first photo sharing platform that’s federated and fully under your control.

Key Features

  • Privacy First: No ads, no tracking
  • Federation: Connect with the fediverse via ActivityPub
  • Stories: Ephemeral content support
  • Collections: Organize photos into albums

Architecture

This pattern deploys a complete Pixelfed infrastructure including:

  • Auto-scaling EC2 instances
  • RDS MySQL database
  • ElastiCache Redis
  • S3 for photo storage
  • CloudFront CDN for image delivery

Getting Started

  1. Subscribe to the pattern on AWS Marketplace
  2. Launch the CloudFormation stack
  3. Configure your instance settings
  4. Start sharing photos with your community

Open Source Resources

This pattern is fully open source. View the code, report issues, or contribute on GitHub.

GitHub Repository
View source code and documentation Terraform Module
Manage your deployment using Terraform

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