Impressive indeed
Both sites have different monthly active users numbers, but between 42k and 52k is quite impressive
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wow, it's really cool. I have also made an account on gram.social (pixelfed server). so far I am liking it :)
Oh no, Metas profits!! How will they live in a slightly better world now?
@Evil_Shrubbery @korendian I hope they perish, a truely evil corp. They ones ecperimented with making folks depressed because depressed people are more sensitive to impulse buying.
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What are you supposed to put in the "server url" field in Pixelix? I put the instance I have an account on, because I don't have any other information that would make sense to put there, but nothing happens when I tap the arrow.
Also, what the fuck, fediverse. It's exactly this kind of bullshit that's why nobody joins you. Fix it for Christ's sake. Something this unintuitive doesn't even belong in a beta build. If I was a paid instagram plant making this app to frustrate people into going back to instagram, this is the splash screen I'd use. Stop making it impossible to recommend you in good faith to people I like.
I don't know about that app specifically, but I know some fediverse apps do not have all instances in their directory. For example, fedilab doesn't have friendica.world. I would suggest hunting around for an app that supports your instance, but I agree, it is a dumb problem. What is the point of being able to join whatever instance you want if it is not listed on the app?
Gotta have an official app, that’s the only reason I made an account and posted anything.
Pretty sure the official app has been in testing for a while. And I feel like I heard recently it's releasing a stable build.
In case I'm wrong though, there's always PixelDroid and the recently released Pixelix.
Also, like most fediverse apps, the first-party, official apps are always very basic and more of a proof-of-concept kind of thing. In most cases you'd be better served with third-party apps.
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does anyone know why this sudden uptick?
Streisand effect. There's a news story going around about Meta intentionally deleting links to Pixelfed: https://www.404media.co/meta-is-blocking-links-to-decentralized-instagram-competitor-pixelfed/
I'm sure Zuckerberg's recent comments are helping as well.
Combo of terrible moderation rules changes by meta, the release of the pixelfed app on Android and iOS, and coverage of that app by major tech news outlets.
Along with people being unhappy with Meta, and the looming TikTok ban, Pixelfed just now released apps for it.
Meta has changed their ToS. Prior, you could not accuse someone of being mentally ill without consequence. Now there is an exception allowing shitty people to accuse someone of being mentally ill if they are gay or trans. It's seriously fucked up.
Also, Mark Zuckerberg, the ostrich fucker, removed the fact checker from Meta services.
In this, the worst timeline, I am glad that there is no need to add "allegedly", as Zuck is clearly an alpha degen.
And those are just the instances that show up. Nice!
325,000 users? Had no idea.
The heard "someday" there will be Groups...
I still can't get a loops account.
nothing much on there from what I've seen, has potential though
It still doesn't have a webapp that was supposed to ship weeks ago. The android app is buggy, laggy and doesn't allow direct capture from the camera. I'd say loops is not ready yet.
It's still early. It's not even federated yet, just more or less a 1:1 tiktok clone.
Can't get popular if you can't download it easily.
hmmm.. I never tried out pixelfed. I will now.
edit: oauth not working :/