I mostly just want to ensure mine is visible to others.
This is the tricky part - you will be remote-invisible until someone from the other instance(s) follow you for any of your content to show up in their Explore (hashtags, etc.) feed for other people to discover you. Pixelfed.social is the biggest hub by far so getting on that radar is key (much like joining a small Mastodon instance and you want to be “seen” on mastodon.social e.g. - same processes).
So you want to follow yourself from your pixelfed.social account to your own domain.com, so that your domain.com profile is seeded (federated) for other pixelfed.social users to discover as they browse. It’s a hack but there’s no other real way given how “opt-in” federation works, unless you have pre-existing friends on pixelfed.social who subscribe to your domain.com for you right away so you don’t have to hack it to get started.
Inconvenient on webUI (standard/stock) as the images in the post content are forced to fit in a small dimension (css juju) and they’re not clickable to see the larger version to read the written words etc. I think the latter can be solved with some Markdown like…
…which is this horrible Markdown stanza:
[![https://feddit.nl/pictrs/image/043d174a-9855-4939-a7e2-6cca586b3443.webp](https://feddit.nl/pictrs/image/043d174a-9855-4939-a7e2-6cca586b3443.webp)](https://feddit.nl/pictrs/image/043d174a-9855-4939-a7e2-6cca586b3443.webp)
…but it provides the “expand to large size on click” that’s missing. $0.02 hth!
Edit: I just noticed that in it’s original form (no-click), when I rightmouse “open in new tab” is available but “open in new Private window” (Firefox) is not. On my hacked up make-it-clickable Markdown test here, the “open in new Private window” is available again. I, a random internet user, open almost all links in Private windows in all my browsing - keeps trash cookies off my system and transient URLs (like these images) out of my History.