@aramloosman Yes, I exchanged once a toot or two with @dansup (not about Pixelfed, though), and submitted a tiny PR for Pixelfed a while ago.
I think some of my biggest complaints are about the Instagram UI itself — not about Pixelfed. So yeah, looks like I should be migrating to another image-sharing tool at some point (I'm not in a hurry). The problem is, there are lots of #Fediverse tools for audio, video, microblogging and writing; but not so many for images…