Pixelfed is growing like crazy (as always make sure to read the Y-axis labels)
https://pixelfed.fediverse.observer/dailystats
Hopefully they get good integration with Lemmy and get some of that content showing up over here too lol
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I have to admit that the name hits hard. I had trouble setting up an account but I'll check it out once the servers stabilize.
Should've set the goal at 100k for fulltime employment. These kinds of projects need that kind of dedication
As long as they reach the goal they keep everything donated including if it raises much more than the goal.
They’re already at 72k
That's good news. I imagine it will diminish quickly unless the story about TikTok is kept alive. The news cycle is mostly 1-2 weeks. Hopefully it'll have reached 100k by then.
I agree, but there's still plenty of time for that to happen. I wish them all the success in the world.
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Doing more fedi posting on reddit. If you're on reddit and don't mind being a fediverse evangelist, please go hit this thread:
Have you ever noticed that people get all nitpicky when they want to distract from the original message?
One that jumped out to me was folks bashing the security of mastodon because things like DMs were visible to instance admins. Like yeah I guess it's not great, but I trust my DMs with my instance admin more than fucking Musk...
Ok, so I spent the weekend getting my own Pixelfed instance working for my friends who want off Instagram.
My big question, is how do you discover new content?
Sure you can follow people on other instances, but how do you find them in the first place?
Also, basically all of the content I’ve been able to find so far has been artsy photos of fences and beaches and whatnot. It’s pretty and all, but there’s not much of humanity in my feed.
you could try following people from here: https://fediverse.info/explore/people?t=photography
Cool link! Thanks
I read that as feces and got confused why it was pretty and all lol
It's some pretty good shit
It's really hard with small, starting instances.
Basically, the only content that gets federated to you is content produced by someone that a person on your instance follows. And once it federates to you, it becomes searchable and viewable to other members on your instance. Which means that the more people you have, the more content gets federated too you, and the easier it is for your users to find new content.
And new users that no one on your instance follows at all won't appear to any of your users in searches etc, which is where "boosting" a post comes in. If I post a photo, and no one on your instance follows me, none of your users will see it. But if someone that they do follow, follows me and likes my photo, they "boost" it, and then it appears in the timelines of people that follow them. And then once a single person on your instance starts following me, my future content will start federating to you.
Which means that as an admin, the best thing you can do is start up a seed account, and just follow lots and lots of people. Follow random people. Follow anyone and everyone, just so you get a critical mass of content sliding to your instance.
This is a problem that all fediverse platforms suffer from. The initial hump to get good visibility of federated content is a challenge. Once you cross it, you're fine, but to cross it, you either need to be patient and give it time, or you need to artificially kickstart it
Peertube does not suffer from this actually. On Peertube, the instances (servers) follow each other. Making all the content available on both.
That's an interesting idea. I was wondering how it would scale, but as the network grows, even if it just grabbed some random stuff from remote instances, it would still help it grow by giving the local instance plenty of content to seed from
I actually wrote a bit about this in the past: https://deadsuperhero.com/2021/10/peertubes-content-wasteland/
TL;DR - Yeah, it's possible to fill up your local catalogue of remote entries really quickly through instance following. The problem is not a shortage of instances or videos, the problem is that cutting it down to the good stuff requires a lot of active curation. It's very easy to just open the firehose and drown in a never-ending stream of junk.
Interesting. I feel like that might be less of an issue for the microblog fediverse though? It doesn't have the same problem with content generation
Yeah, I'd say it might have more to do with the fact that making texts posts is a lot easier than making videos. It's still possible to introduce too much noise, regardless of medium, but there's a lot less friction when the medium is simpler and doesn't require much work.
follow some of the bigger hashtags to get input, from there you can branch out and follow specific accounts (and unfollow the original hashtags if you want).
a few bigger ones are bloomscrolling caturday mastoart photography silentsunday fensterfreitag
Right, but hashtags only show posts on my instance which at the moment is just me.
hmm apologies, I didn't realize that personal instances were like that. I'm on pixelfed.de so I just shared what worked for me a few days ago.
I'm guessing you could search for a few accounts on various servers to follow directly who post with those hashtags to get the ball rolling?
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If you don't hate bluesky, that's an option as well: https://fed.brid.gy/
The thing that I hate about the bridge is that, I need to separately bridge my account with bluesky to interact with a bluesky account bridged to fediverse.
True, but it's not that hard. It's still cool that you can communicate.https://fed.brid.gy/
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I love pixelfed,I don't love the developer......this isn't going to do his already huge ego Amy favours
It's helpful to be able to appreciate art without worrying too much about the artist. In history the number of genius artists who were bad people - it's basically off the scale.
This isn't art, it's a platform, it's a tool more akin to engineering than painting.
Would you have this same response for x, Facebook, or truth social?
the difference is the level of control
X and Facebook are closed source, so you can't review them and they could be hiding stuff in their code or just do things people don't like and we can't revert
they also control the servers and don't let you self host, so they can make bad admin decisions and there's nothing we can do
and they also horde the content so you can't get it from somewhere else, which means you can't just leave and use a different platform (not easily at least)
over here if you don't like the devs then you don't need to donate to them, you don't need to use their instance, or we can fork their code, or even use an alternative (like Mbin vs Lemmy)
I think in terms of fedi, it's fine. I mean plenty of people think Linus Torvold is an Ass, but we all love Linux for what it is.
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he's not even a bad guy he just gets a big head sometimes
Hers a list of Fedi based projects where parople have said the same thing
- Mastodon
- Lemmy
- GotoSocial
- Bookwyhrm
Then step outside that
- Linux
- GNU
Then stuff like
- Meta
- Microsoft
- Apple
- Oracle
- AI
Do anything and some people will dislike you. I save my loathing for the commercial projects and the inevitable enshitiftacion of the internet that they necessarily add to.
Fuck yeah it did!!!
Patiently waiting for my application to get accepted (ಥ﹏ಥ) how long does it take on average?
I waited like 2, maybe 3 days to get approved for Pixelfed.art back around late Dec/early Jan. Since the spike of TikTok users happened after me, it might be more time. Have patience comrade, you'll get there 👍
To be fair, the flagship instance recently had a surge of 200,000 new sign-ups. Dansup mentioned to me that he's currently seeing like 50 new posts every minute. He's probably scrambling to upgrade infra.
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I love Pixelfed :3
(Hopefully they make the app good)
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