You can see it if you check https://fedidb.org/. Monthly active users have gone from just a hair under one million to somewhere around 1.4 million and still growing. How do we think this will go? How do we feel about this influx of new users? Has PixelFed done something different that Mastodon hasn't?

I feel like I didn't really recognize having different "platforms" like Mastodon, PixelFed, etc would give multiple opportunities for the fediverse to make a "first" impression with people.

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[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Haven't really gotten around to checking it out yet. TBH I can read a lot faster than most videos explain concepts.

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Fine with me.

[–] GooberEar@lemmy.wtf 8 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I know I can Kagi or duckduckgo it or whatever you people are using these days, but what is PixelFed and what's it an alternative to? News aggregators aside, I don't social media so I'm not sure if it's a tiktok or instagram or whatsapp or faceplace.

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[–] fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 day ago (8 children)

More users isn't necessarily good.

Every time there's an influx from whatever shit storm we retain about 20%.

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[–] PanArab@lemm.ee 5 points 1 day ago

We just need to explain federation to them

[–] Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 day ago

Pixelfed is really easy to engage with and get a feed started. I think that's let to its popularity growth. I've added mastedon and peertube and neither has made it as easy to onboard.

I still remember the curve with Lemmy. Pixelfed is clearly the easiest to get started with, and then it's just pictures!

[–] Hominy_Hank@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Nothing works on pixelfee for me. Half the photos are just black. It shows an account has a lot of posts, but I don't see anything. Searches being up results but selecting one of those results produces zero results.

How are y'all getting pixelfed to work?

[–] westyvw@lemm.ee 4 points 1 day ago

I joined an instance, I discovered some people who posted some cool pictures and so I added them to my feed.

Maybe try dropping the instance you started with?

I gotta say I am rather meh about it, but that isn't pixelfeeds fault. I just dont really care to see people posting random shit online.

But I gotta try so I can explain it to people who do because so many businesses (usually small artists) feel they can't leave Instagram because they don't know where else to market, and their followers won't leave because the business is there.

I can't recommend change without experiencing it so I can help support it.

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

What instance are you using? How are you accessing it (browser, app, etc.)?

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[–] pigeonholedpoetry@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

If it brings more diversity, I’m all for it. If it makes it even more super left psycho Echo chamber-y then it will just be annoying.

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[–] bruhsoulz@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Need better flagship app tbh. Pixelix is better imo but its 5bucks on playstore and sideloading on my current main phone is a hassle :/

[–] Lawnman23@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

https://pixelfed.org/mobile-apps

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 2 points 1 day ago

There's an official app now.

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[–] radiantshackles@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Don't wanna throw cold water on what should be a celebration, but are these all distinct active users? I have separate accounts on Lemmy, PixelFed, Mastodon, and Loops--do I still count as one active user, or am I four? If the latter, I think it's plenty likely that others like me have simply gotten used to the first fedi platform they chose and are branching out as they learn about more. Maybe doesn't account for all the growth, but would explain away some of the meteoric rise.

[–] xapr@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 1 day ago

This is a good point. I'm pretty sure that if you're active on Lemmy, PixelFed, Mastodon, or even have multiple active accounts on multiple instances of each of those (like a lot of people do), each single one of those would count as a separate active user. I really can't think of any way that this wouldn't be the case, because how would the statistics servers know that your the same person?

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Its' pretty great.

As with the time I joined Mastodon, it takes a couple of weeks to find what you like and build up a good feed, but once you do that, it's useful and fun. I wish it had more curation tools, but I enjoy it.

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[–] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 days ago

How do I feel?

I was following my Lemmy rule and hunting out smaller instances rather than pile into the biggest one.
tried 4 separate smaller instance sign ups and never got a single one of them to work and send me a verification email, so I kinda gave up....

[–] mesamunefire@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

👍

[–] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Lemmy can't federate with pixelfed yet can it? I know we have some integration with mastodon, but I'm guessing we can't connect to pixelfed directly yet?

[–] morrowind@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago

It can but you can't follow users from Lemmy, same issue as mastodon

[–] BilliamBoberts@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Excited. Anyone know if/when their gonna add dark mode?

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