@onlybro I setup an instance for our company at https://pixelfed.cloudron.io/ to test things out. gif animation does work for me but after applying any effect it loses the animation.
I can also see the filters:
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I can see the DM screen but there is some app error when I try to see the messages:
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Overall, most of the bugs are just app bugs, please do report them upstream: https://github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed . I think you reported some already. Note that we don't develop the app itself, we only packaged it.