anybody using pixelfed? i was just curious about it so i tried installing. It would be nice if it had better documentation i think, of course that's always a challenge. documentation is almost as much work as development. so anyway i had to figure out how to create an admin user myself. I wasn't excited about having to use a newer php version than is supported by Debian, i mean back in the old days I always used to build from source but it's just too much work to do that with upgrading many servers. using apt update is much saner. But adding the unsupported DPA for PHP isn't so bad (AFAIK that is operated by the Debian package manager anyway, so it's not just some random person).
So I have php 8.4, i upload a photo and get a 500 error. The error is about using deprecated functions.. I'm wondering why someone would require a minimum version of PHP that's new and unsupported and then turn around and use deprecated functions. that's just koo koo pants. I guess it's vanity. I seriously doubt there is any reason to require the new version of PHP, and i'd bet a dollar they don't even use anything the newer version offer. But other people are using it, it appears, so I suppose there must be a way to do it.
