"compete" is a strong word. They can see us and we can see them. People are already posting from pixelfed to lemmy so its just pushing both platforms forward.

[–] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I wouldnt be into anything like Instagram so it would hardly be interchangeable with something like Lemmy (Reddit) for me. If they get more people turned on to the Fediverse than sweet

[–] mesamunefire@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah honestly the biggest change between pixelfed and mastodon is the UI. Its a very Instagram like, but simplified (at least at the moment).

Mastodon technically has more "features" but at the end of the day, it all about how people want to interact with their socials.

[–] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Hos their onboarding experience? I get the feeling onbording is in the top issues that are said to be why people are less inclined to sign up

[–] VolumetricShitCompressor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Is it like with Mastodon? Do I need a separate account to use Pixelfed well?

[–] mesamunefire@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

Actually I believe you can use Mastodon as the login in this case: https://pixelfed.blog/p/2023/feature/introducing-sign-in-with-mastodon-streamlining-sign-up-and-login-on-pixelfed

[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They will join us once the long promised groups implementation is finally merged in Pixelfed.

[–] Blaze@feddit.org 4 points 1 day ago

It has definitely been long promised

[–] SouthEndSunset@lemm.ee 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I wouldn’t say it was competing, it would be like saying Reddit and Instagram competed.

[–] Suoko@feddit.it 2 points 17 hours ago

Yes , I was joking