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[–] Sergio@slrpnk.net 13 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Pixelfed is growing at a rate of 20,000 active users per day. (source).

Mastodon has recently been growing at 5,000 to 10,000 active users per day. (source)

Those are active users, i.e. actually posting or liking/favoriting. Since yesterday pixelfed.social had to turn off its global feed. Mastodon.social still has its global feed but it doesn't seem to be getting pixelfed posts and isn't updating automatically. Maybe it's good that the press is ignoring them. If they grew any faster they'd become unusable.

[–] ekZepp@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Pixelfed

ok

[–] crawancon@lemm.ee 5 points 10 months ago

if or once lemmy is ever flooded, the lack of moderation will destroy it from within.

[–] Blaze@feddit.org 2 points 10 months ago

Nice one ha ha

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Augh, why didn't you fix the missing segment on the fedi logo while you were monkeying around

[–] ekZepp@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

fix

Here, all fixed.

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 3 points 10 months ago

I know you are trying to aggravate but this is actually good enough for my purposes.

[–] Hafty@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I just wish PixelFed was actually usable. It’s incredibly slow and clunky in the just released app. The biggest barrier to entry for an Instagram alternative is convincing your friends and family to join. Twitter and Reddit alternatives are mostly anonymous and don’t necessitate following people you know.

[–] Sergio@slrpnk.net 2 points 10 months ago

The slowness is probably due to the sudden growth. The web interface of pixelfed.social was pretty slow for a couple days over the last weekend and is still occasionally unreachable. I think the expectation is that it will peak soon and stabilize at some percentage of the peak, with performance improving.

[–] secret300@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Why did they have to turn off their global feed? And will it be back?

[–] Sergio@slrpnk.net 1 points 10 months ago

No idea. Over the weekend pixelfed.social was getting laggy, so my completely ignorant speculation is it's a temporary thing to manage the influx of new users. It's also possible my setup is wrong somehow bc I'm not really familiar with either platform.

[–] TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

i thought mastodon was part of the fediverse

[–] ekZepp@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

It is... ...

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 10 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Lemmy is cozy. I think it could be better if it were larger but not like, huge. But its also okay now. Not everything needs the grow at all costs mentality

[–] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 9 points 10 months ago (2 children)

The only thing I'm missing is a more diverse range of active communities

[–] Blaze@feddit.org 5 points 10 months ago

That requires more people

[–] IMALlama@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

IMO things are way better than they were 6 months ago.

[–] Corgana@startrek.website 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I think Lemmy should be huge. Think about how many subreddits exist for every niche. It would be great if those places could exist free of corporate influence.

[–] TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 4 points 10 months ago

I like how small it is too, but it's so annoying watching people IRL continuously go to billionaire after billionaire

[–] MadBob@feddit.nl 8 points 10 months ago (3 children)

We all know there's a barrier, albeit fairly low, to the fediverse proper, but on the other hand, I remember seeing a video once about how people's attention span is so fucked by Instagram and all that that they comment with questions already answered in the post, for example (obviously I can't find it now in the sea of opinion-piece video essays about it). In a way the barrier to entry is a boon to the fediverse proper in all arenas bar financing.

[–] ekZepp@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago

[The Barrier]

[The Users]

[–] probably2high@lemm.ee 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

If anything, this is how the Internet used to be: there is a small technical barrier to entry, but if you can't be bothered to learn you'll struggle.

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 3 points 10 months ago

And the Internet certainly used to be better.

[–] Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Personally, I blame the tankies. The hoard of people dedicated to harassment on Hexbear is a big part of why I'm considering other platforms.

[–] Blaze@feddit.org 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Have you tried using an instance that defederates hexbear? There are quite a few: https://sopuli.xyz, https://discuss.online/

[–] Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I'll look into migration when I'm sure I want to stay. I'm p.emotionally unstable ATM and don't want to try something new and not know if I hate it because it's a bad fit or if it's because my head meat got fucked by the world.

Edit: I appreciate it though. You're a good person that does good work.

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 6 points 10 months ago

It's better this way. Reddit went to shit when it started getting media attention.

[–] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Even Reddit is super niche compared to Xitter or Bluesky. Hardly surprising that its Fediverse-equivalent is a lot less popular than Twitter's equivalent.

[–] massive_bereavement@fedia.io 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I didn't choose mbin/lemmy because it was popular, so I'm fine with this.

[–] Zero22xx@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 10 months ago

Yeah this was kind of a similar story with Reddit at one point too. When I first looked into Reddit, it was because I had seen it included with the 'share' buttons on various websites and wanted to see what it was. I don't think it was as small as Lemmy when I joined but it was definitely never on the same plateau as Facebook and Twitter.

[–] Cris_Color@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Did something new happen with bluesky? Or is this just joking about the continued state of things?

[–] Blaze@feddit.org 3 points 10 months ago

People leaving X after Trump's inauguration

[–] Emperor@feddit.uk 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Swap Mastodon for Xitter and it feels spot on.

Not sure you'd show how well Pixelfed is doing at the moment but that might be for another meme.

[–] ekZepp@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Xitter goes in the trashcan 👌

[–] Emperor@feddit.uk 3 points 10 months ago

I like to think Threads went straight in the trash, Xitter at least made it into the pool but is now drowning.

[–] Xanthrax@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

It would love it if NPR did a deep dive into alternate social media platforms.